The Croatian Parliament has voted to reintroduce mandatory basic military training by amending the Defense Act.

Vote result: 84 in favor, 30 abstained, 11 against.

Training details: lasts 2 months, starting end of 2025; about 4,000 recruits yearly in Knin, Slunj, and Požega.

All 18-year-old men are registered and called for training the year they turn 19.

Medical exams determine fitness; deferrals possible until age 29.

Postponements allowed for students and athletes; possible service up to age 30.

Conscientious Objectors

May opt for civil protection service (3–4 months) instead of military duty.

Monthly pay: €1,100 for military trainees; lower for civilian service.

Women not required but may volunteer for training.

Penalties

Fines (€250–1,320) for unjustified absence or refusal to serve.

Exemptions: medically unfit, police/military school cadets, clergy, dual citizens serving abroad.

AI would never generate this

Leaders from six Western Balkan nations — Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia — met in London Wednesday with British and European officials to discuss migration, security, and economic growth. U.K. Prime Minister Keir "Two Tier" Starmer called the region “Europe’s crucible,” stressing its importance to continental security.

The summit, part of the Berlin Process promoting EU integration for Balkan states, comes amid renewed Western focus following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Britain, though no longer in the EU, extended its Kosovo peacekeeping role through 2028 and announced new sanctions on Kosovo and Abu Dubai based criminal gangs involved in people smuggling in the Balkans.

Starmer emphasized cooperation to block illegal migration routes through the Balkans to the U.K., noting success in reducing Albanian crossings. Britain also proposed “return hubs” for rejected asylum-seekers.

Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said his country is “not part of the migrant routes through the Balkans” because its railway infrastructure isn’t developed enough.

He said might be willing to accept a migrant returns hub if Britain agreed to “invest 10 billion euros into building railways.”

European leaders including Germany’s Friedrich Merz and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas attended the one-day event at Lancaster House.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: €0.303 per kWh
🇩🇪 Germany: €0.394 per kWh
🇩🇰 Denmark: €0.376 per kWh
🇮🇪 Ireland: €0.370 per kWh
🇧🇪 Belgium: €0.331 per kWh
🇮🇹 Italy: €0.311 per kWh
🇫🇷 France: €0.293 per kWh
🇵🇹 Portugal: €0.263 per kWh
🇪🇸 Spain: €0.241 per kWh
🇦🇹 Austria: €0.244 per kWh
🇫🇮 Finland: €0.273 per kWh
🇳🇱 Netherlands: €0.216 per kWh
🇬🇷 Greece: €0.231 per kWh
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: €0.1217 per kWh
🇭🇺 Hungary: €0.1032 per kWh
🇭🇷 Croatia: €0.1484 per kWh
🇷🇴 Romania: €0.1863 per kWh
🇸🇮 Slovenia: €0.1810 per kWh
🇦🇱 Albania: €0.0976 per kWh
🇲🇪 Montenegro: €0.096 per kWh
🇧🇦 BiH: €0.0893 per kWh
🇷🇸 Serbia: €0.12 per kWh

15% of new car registrations in Western Europe are Electric Vehicles. Meaning that they are adding on more demand to the grid.

The recent Dutch move to seize Nexperia backfired as they soon realized the company is just a holding shell and the chips were manufactured in China, so they didn't seize any means of production, they only infuriated China which buck broke the supply chain.

Germany meanwhile is still going forward with phasing out nuclear power. Arguably the cheapest, safest and most scalable source of energy. Western Europe is at the mercy of buying over priced LNG from the US.

Many Eurocentric policies simply do not make sense.

🇭🇷🇷🇸 - A group of reckless people decided to create a tiny state called Verdis in between Croatia and Serbia, where there is a small plot of land that both countries do not actively claim.

While the project is being hyped, there were previous attempts to create something in that precise location, which typically ended up with merciless beating from Croatian policemen and border control officers directed at those who tried to sneak to the territory and establish anything there.

🇹🇷 Turkey Labels Christians as National Security Threats

Turkey has reportedly designated Christians as threats to national security, using internal codes to deport and block re-entry of long-term residents with no criminal charges.

The measures have disrupted church life by removing priests and members from local communities, causing deep concern among believers in the region.

December 23, 2015. Edi Rama. Albania has always had friendly relations with the Israelis since 1949.

The question is - will the Serbs sacrifice one of their own to the humiliation ritual?

I forgot about this guy in '22 - he doesn't count tho.

#BREAKING | Russia Needs Millions of Skilled Migrants for 3.2% Growth, Says Sberbank CEO

German Gref, head of Sberbank and a close Putin ally, warned Russia's State Council that sustaining 3.2% annual growth through 2030 requires either higher productivity or a major workforce expansion via skilled immigration.

Acute labor shortages—exacerbated by military mobilization and wage inflation—have pushed Sberbank to forecast just 0.8% GDP growth in 2025, down from 4.3% in 2024.

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We all have our place in this world. Whether we choose to accept the reality and its outcomes is an individual choice.

Seems another admin reshared this.

As this was a private post for my chat - it was aimed at Bosnians. So I'll twist it around to be general.

If tomorrow you woke up and discovered your country no longer existed, what would you do?

If tomorrow you realized your politicians had replaced your culture, what would you do?

You nod along to the headlines — migrant replacement, economic collapse, cultural erasure — because deep down, you know it’s true.

You acknowledge the decay, you see it with your eyes. Yet when the conclusion stares you in the face — that you do not matter to the ruling class, no matter how loudly you echo their slogans or display your loyalty — you retreat into denial.

We see it clearly — in the United States, in Europe, in the Balkans everywhere the people still believe their vote for the loudest ones is driving them in the right direction despite the reality showing otherwise.

They campaigned to expel illegal immigration. They campaigned to protect the culture. They campaigned for honest work, family, and education. Safety, security and home.

And what did they receive?

Streamlined migrations. Hollowed-out industries. Inflation and unemployment.

A shrinking middle class. Crumbling healthcare. An education system stripped of purpose.

Yet the fanatic still chants, “Make America Great Again!” "Change!" "Unser Land Zeurst!" — hoping, in vain, that someone up high still listens. Not out of blind devotion, but out of desperate faith that his voice might matter.

But nationalism — true nationalism — isn’t obedience to a party or a man.

It’s loyalty to the land, to the people, to the soul of the culture itself.

So when I say "We all have our place in this world" - I do not say it out of multiculturalism.

I say it, so when the time comes that you've been discarded by the state; you have a place in this world in which you belong.