Democracy

Right-wing nationalist politics use Mladić’s grave to instill fear and intimidate victims, as if they were constantly back at the beginning of the struggle for the truth - a truth that has been factually proven by court verdicts.

The WB6 SG expresses its profound indignation with the Serbian government’s actions and statements related to the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić. 

Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide,the questions regarding what happened and who did it have largely been resolved. What remains unclear is how the past will shape the future, our author argues.

Members of the group paid respect to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and reaffirmed the importance of preserving their memory as an essential part of addressing the legacy of wars and building lasting peace in the Western Balkans.

Fragile institutions, deep polarization, and growing pressures on the country's civic identity reveal how much remains unfinished. European integration is Montenegro's decisive chance, not just to close negotiating chapters, but to transform state and society from within.

Local elections taking place in ten Serbian municipalities were meant to be routine. Instead, for the first time in years, the seemingly untouchable SNS faces a credible challenger. All eyes are now on them as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming general elections.

Instead of articulating society’s needs through clear visions, options and solutions that could be implemented through public policies, society was successfully steered through a ritualised gesture of representative democracy.

In his book Sjećanje i poricanje: Od ZAVNOBIHA do naših dana (Memory and Denial: From ZAVNOBiH to the Present Day), Professor Nerzuk Ćurak of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo describes ZAVNOBiH as “one of the most important moments in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s legal and political history”, one that still possesses “transformative power”.

In a time when democracy is experiencing a crisis worldwide, the citizens of North Macedonia enjoy the privilege of electing their political representatives fairly, freely and democratically for the third time in less than a year and a half.