Headlines: the Balkans abandoned by Covax?
At the Covid-19 vaccination center in Nis, Serbia on March 3, 2021. REUTERS - MARKO DJURICA
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Florentin Cassonnet
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Serbia is at the top of European vaccination statistics thanks to China and its Sinopharm vaccine, which it authorized while it is still in phase 3 testing.
But the other non-EU Balkan countries still do not see the color of the vaccines promised by the Covax mechanism, aimed at "
low and middle income
" countries.
Whose fault is it ?
For those who have been able to start their vaccination campaign, it is thanks to donations from neighboring countries or the arrival of Chinese or Russian vaccines.
Even if Serbia is one of the countries that vaccinate the most in Europe, one category of the population remains on the sidelines, the Roma.
Indeed, how to register on the vaccination platform without having access to the internet?
NGOs are
sounding the alarm bells.
Fake news about refugees?
A new specialty of the Hungarian minority media in Serbia.
While Viktor Orbán's Fidesz has left the European People's Party (EPP), Budapest is relying on these media to extend its influence, with millions of euros in funding.
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Investigation
"Border" case in Montenegro
It is a matter of corruption at the top of the police force.
One million euros of embezzled European funds, a bogus call for tenders allowing a Serbian company to have access to the cameras controlling Montenegro's maritime borders ... Several police executives have been arrested in connection with the
scandal "Frontier"
.
After thirty years of unchallenged reign of Milo Đukanović and his Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the new government of Montenegro is undermined from within by the pro-Serbian components of its own majority, supported by Belgrade.
The country
risks plunging back
into its historical divisions.
Next test: the municipal elections of March 14 in Nikšić.
Two women
There was a time when models paraded from Ljubljana to Skopje, via Belgrade or Sarajevo.
Milica Mitić traces the tangled threads of the prestigious history of Yugoslavian fashion, thanks to the rediscovered fate of model Ivanka Dvojaković.
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They have to protect each other because no one else is.
Oana Maria Zaharia created the group
Who not to date
, a solidarity network of women, who testify, help each other and denounce their attackers.
So that fear changes sides.
► Portrait
100 years ago, the Republic of Labin
On March 2, 1921, faced with the fascist threat, the miners of Albano / Labin, in then Italian Istria, rose up and proclaimed an ephemeral republic, but this intense self-management experience was quickly suppressed in blood.
A look back at this Municipality in Istria
which has left a deep mark on the memory of the workers' movement, both in Italy and in Yugoslavia.
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