@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."

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

@Jelennah169 lays it out.

Sceptical analysis (and a Tolkien metaphor).

43 things that'll change in Serbia with gay PM.

Old problems resurface.

Brilliant on Vučić by @DejanAnastasije.

An ex-Yugoslav view from my former colleague @PedjaBajovic.

Alas, it still needs to be spelled out.

Ivan writes of the consequences.

Expert commentary on EU-Serbia relations (by me, in Serbian)

If normalisation means anything, it means this.

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

Florian nails it.

Sad news!

Great news. (And cadastral records?)

The EU and NATI still have work to do.

From Bosnia to Somaliland, via Nagorno-Karabakh.

Another brilliant story from Strange Maps.

Commissioner @JHahnEU downplays attacks on Serbian media freedom.

Colour film of Belgrade in 1961.

A great guy, gone too soon.

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

A journey through Yugoslavia in 1952. Beautiful writing.

Toby Vogel with the full text.

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

Sad news of a great human rights defender. (But fails to mention his occasional career as a TV film critic.)

Catherine Ashton greets the new president of Serbia. (Page is in Croatian but embedded video entirely in English.)

Outrageous behaviour from Milosevic-era minister.