—Serbian conservative account Based Serbia on X:

OUTRAGEOUS! Vučić’s regime just signed a deal to import 100K workers from Ghana 🇬🇭

We are not in the EU 🇪🇺 but we follow Brussels like obedient servants! If this continues, Serbia will end up like France, UK... flooded, divided, unrecognisable.

This is national betrayal!

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🇷🇴📊⚡️ The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) is polling 3rd, overtaking the National Liberal Party (PNL) among the preferences of the residents of Bucharest!

In a surprising statistic, AUR's popularity among the residents of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, a wealthy, liberal/left-leaning city, AUR is rising in the preferences of the locals to the detriment of the two established parties, PNL and the Social Democratic Party (PSD).

If these two parties had a strong grip on local politics of Bucharest as late as last year, winning every town hall except for the General Town Hall won by Nicușor Dan, who was backed only by the Save Romania Union (USR) at the time, the support for PNL and PSD has fallen to record lows.

Overall, the three nationalist parties appearing on the poll make up 25% of the voting preferences, the establishment parties (PSD and PNL) having 38% and USR alone 27%.

This marks a significant shift in the local politics of Bucharest which may play a role in the upcoming mayoral elections now that Nicușor Dan was elected president and left the Town Hall.

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—🇦🇱 NEW: PM Edi Rama has announced plans to make Albania a cashless society by the end of the decade.

The "Albania 2030" initiative aims to digitize all financial transactions and eliminate the use of cash.

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—☦️🇷🇸 WATCH: St. Sava Temple in Belgrade is one of the largest churches in the world!

With its stunning dome soaring over 70 meters, it’s a breathtaking symbol of faith and culture.

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—🇪🇺/🇦🇱 The European Parliament on Albania's EU membership:

Albania is getting closer to joining the EU – but it has to do more 🇦🇱🤝🇪🇺

MEPs welcome progress such as Albania fully aligning with the EU’s foreign and security policy.

However, protecting the rule of law, fundamental rights and combatting corruption demand improvements.

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—🇽🇰/🇲🇪 NEW: A Kosovo Albanian competitor in diving has been disqualified and banned from all competitions in Montenegro after making the Albanian eagle hand gesture 👐🏼 during an event.

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—🇭🇺/🇷🇸/🇷🇺 BREAKING: Hungary and Serbia have discussed the construction of an oil pipeline to transport Russian oil, with Russian representatives also participating in the talks, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.

🔗 The National Independent

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—🇹🇷/🇮🇱/🇸🇾 NEW: Erdogan accuses Israel of undermining Syrian stability with reckless attacks.

Turkish President Erdogan condemned recent Israeli strikes in Syria, calling Israel “a mad beast” acting irrationally and claiming it deliberately seeks to sabotage efforts to stabilize the region.

📰 Source: Balkan Spectator Newsroom

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—❗️🇧🇦 URGENT: International community initiates process to remove High Representative Schmidt.

According to Istraga, multiple diplomatic sources confirm that U.S.-involved talks are underway to end Christian Schmidt’s mandate by late 2025. At the same time, Croatian officials are urging him to use his Bonn Powers to impose permanent changes to Bosnia’s Election Law that would secure HDZ's ability to appoint a Croat member of the Presidency.

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—🇷🇸/🇧🇦 NEW: Normalization in Bosnia and Herzegovina is possible only if the illegitimate High Representative Christian Schmidt’s decisions are revoked, said Republic of Srpska President Milorad Dodik.

🔗 The National Independent

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