—🇺🇸/🇽🇰/🇺🇳 NEW: U.S. Balkan expert Daniel Serwer said Americans and Europeans should be “ashamed” for criminalizing a liberation movement they supported, calling the verdict and court “unjust.”—Kosovo Update

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—🇪🇺/🇽🇰/🇺🇳 Marta Kos, European Commissioner for Enlargement:

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers is an impartial and independent judicial body.

Its judgments must be respected and the convicted have the right to appeal.

This is about individual accountability and justice for victims and their families from all communities in Kosovo.

I call on actors in the region to help heal the wounds of the past. Only through reconciliation can the countries of the region overcome divisions and advance towards a common future in the EU.

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—⚡️🇲🇪/🇯🇵 NEW: Montenegro and Japan agree five-year energy cooperation framework.

➡️ The agreement covers electricity, gas and LNG infrastructure.

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—🗳🇷🇸Majority of opposition parties coalesce behind the Student List

➡️ So far, at least seven parliamentary opposition parties, as well as various extra-parliamentary organisations, have withdrawn from the parliamentary election in favour of the Student List.

➡️ They have endorsed the list as the only actor capable of defeating the ruling SNS, meaning that the 25 October election will largely be perceived as a referendum between the SNS and the Student List.

➡️ Several opposition parties, including the European List coalition and the Eurosceptic NADA coalition, still intend to run.

🔗 SERBIA ELECTS

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—🇷🇸🇧🇦🤝🇮🇱🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik in Jerusalem, with Dodik saying talks focused on finalizing economic and cultural cooperation agreements and transferring new technologies, including in agriculture.

➡️ Images circulated from the meeting showed the Republika Srpska entity flag, while Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state flag was not visible.

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Balkan Spectator has detected information regarding calls for an armed uprising in Greece coming from Macedonian circles

➡️ Whether these actors are from North Macedonia or are ethnic Macedonians in Greece is not known.

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