@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."

This is important. There is of course a difference between “accept” and “recognise”.

Sceptical analysis (and a Tolkien metaphor).

Old problems resurface.

Alas, it still needs to be spelled out.

If normalisation means anything, it means this.

The inimitable @JetaXharra tests the Serbia/Kosovo agreements by driving to Romania.

Great news. (And cadastral records?)

From Bosnia to Somaliland, via Nagorno-Karabakh.

I'm in the 1.2.2014 broadcast, starting about 1 minute in.

Toby Vogel with the full text.

I get interviewed on Serbia/Kosovo talks (which failed).

Outrageous behaviour from Milosevic-era minister.

Extraordinary images; takes me back...