Signed by 10 former foreign ministers.

Well said by @SergeiStanishev - "if we cannot follow up on our commitments towards one another, we undermine not only our credibility but the very notion that we care and stand up for each other."

Absolutely fascinating - and worrying - from @timjudah1.

@ediramaal: “Handke’s work cannot be disentangled from the political service it did the late Serbian leader. His political pamphlets are not literature — they are calls to hate that reinforce prejudice.”

@DanielSerwer is alaramed. "If you wanted to make common cause with Europe in the Balkans, Grenell is the last American you would choose for the task."

Interesting conclusions from @CEPS_Thinktank, notably that Georgia is moving well ahead of the field.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Fascinating. I knew him in the Balkans!

The Belfast Newsletter prints my email message.

Florian Bieber channels Machiavelli.

Swiss journalist forces renaming of prize which commemorated Nazi propagandist.

Unfreezing the legacy of war.

Series of events coming up locally.

The problem, however, is that Dr. Trifkovic and his supporters do not want to have a dialogue. As any nationalist would do, they see their version of the past as true and valid, and demand that others believe it, too. While calling for a dialogue they shout at their critics, rather than talk to them and then have the audacity to call such shouting…

by my friend Daniel Serwer, who knew Holbrooke all too well.

If you are putting maps in your advertisements, it is wise to make sure that your maps are correct!

Sad times at the British Embassy in Tirana