Headlines: in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian nationalists want to enshrine ethnic division in constitution

Dragan Čović, the Croatian nationalist leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 9, 2018 © AFP / Odd Andersen

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Dragan Čović, the Croatian nationalist leader in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has one obsession: reforming the electoral law to strengthen the ethnic character of the vote.

A project to which the international community seems dangerously complacent

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Bulgaria: home stretch to form a government

Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev finally won the November 14 ballot, the leaders of the “ 

Pursue change

 ” movement are on the verge of winning their bet by forming a grand coalition bringing together all the opponents of Boïko Borisov, however diverse and unpredictable they may be. they.

Explanations

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Montenegro: one year of work-study program, too few changes

The new government of Montenegro has been in business for a year.

He had promised transparency and a break with the patronage practices of the old regime, but the account is still not there,

while major issues, such as justice reform, are blocked

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However, these delays do not seem to benefit the Democratic Party of Socialists of President Milo Đukanović, which retreated further during the municipal by-elections of December 5,

losing in particular the municipality of Mojkovac

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Environment: Serbian government backs down, concerns in Bosnia and Herzegovina

While the protests continued on Saturday, December 4 in Serbia, against a plan to open by the giant Rio Tinto of a lithium mine near the city of Loznica, in the west of the country, the Serbian government seems have released ballast this week.

On December 8, the executive decided to remove its land expropriation law from Parliament's agenda, but

the struggle is certainly not over yet

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Significant lithium reserves could also be found on the Bosnian side of the Drina and

companies have started to explore in Republika Srpska

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In Albania, illegal deforestation ravages forests

The looters ravage the forests of the natural parks.

In Albania too, illegal deforestation is wreaking havoc, a situation that has worsened further since the start of the pandemic.

Report in the villages of the Korça region

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Cinema in Serbia: an epic poem, a love story, today's refugees

It is the story of a love triangle inspired by a Serbian epic poem, played by refugee actors from Africa and Syria.

The film

As Far as I Can Walk

 triumphs at festivals.

Interview with its director, Stefan Arsenijević

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