—🇧🇬❌🇲🇰 WATCH: Serbian singer Ceca faced backlash and was booed off stage after displaying a Bulgarian flag during her concert in North Macedonia.

➡️ Fans called it a provocation, and local media labeled the incident a scandal, citing Ceca's well-known Serbian nationalist views.

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—🇦🇱/🇧🇬/🇺🇦 WATCH: During the 18th and 19th centuries, many Albanians and Bulgarians migrated to Odessa to escape Ottoman rule.

➡️ Their communities hold joint festivals and celebrate their heritage and maintain excellent relationship to this day.

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—🫂🇸🇮/🇷🇸 WATCH: A solemn ceremony in Ljubljana commemorated the victims of the Novi Sad tragedy, with 16 minutes of silence observed for the 16 individuals lost.

➡️ The event brought together Slovenian and Serbian flags in solidarity.

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—❗️🇧🇬❌🇷🇸 NEW: Bulgarian President Radev has called on all European institutions to take more serious measures against Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church, and what he described as the Russian-backed “Serb world” initiative.

➡️ Radev emphasized the sensitivity of the issue to Bulgaria and labeled Serbia as the main potential conflict point in Europe outside of Russia.

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🇨🇿 Czechia sees the creation of the most rightwing government in its history!

The ANO movement of Andrej Babiš, which won the recent election, is teaming up with the right-wing populists from Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Motorists for Themselves party.

Babiš is expected to return as prime minister.

Two parties in the coalition oppose strong support for Ukraine. Their programs include closer ties with Slovakia and Hungary and rejecting the idea of a joint EU army.

ANO also criticizes Czech participation in the EU initiative on joint ammunition purchases for Ukraine and opposes Ukraine’s EU and NATO membership.

Ministers are expected to be announced by the end of November. The speaker of parliament may be SPD leader Tomio Okamura, who previously used anti-Ukrainian rhetoric.

Czechia is the latest country to swing to the right in Central Europe after Poland and Slovakia, with Romania being the only oddity where liberals won the most recent presidential election, after controversially cancelling the 2024 elections which the nationalist Călin Georgescu was poised to win.

Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia now form a powerful anti-federalist bloc in the EU.

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—🇽🇰/🇹🇷 WATCH: Kosovo’s Cobra I armored vehicles have been filmed carrying ASELSAN SARP remote weapon stations.

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—🇸🇪❌🇷🇸 NEW: Sweden has announced it will cut parts of its support to Serbia’s state authorities, saying Serbia’s government has failed to tackle corruption, uphold the rule of law, and deliver on reforms.

➡️ Swedish subsidies will be redirected to strengthen Serbian civil society, with the possibility of renewed official aid only if Serbia demonstrates genuine reform progress.

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—🤝🇭🇷/🇽🇰 NEW: President Zoran Milanovic of Croatia stated he urges the recognition of the Republic of Kosova wherever he travels.

➡️ Milanovic previously declared he is likely the only foreign president to have called for Kosova's recognition at the UN General Assembly.

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—🇦🇱/🇲🇪/🇪🇺 NEW: Sources report that Albania and Montenegro may enter the European Union as early as 2027, marking a major potential shift for the Balkan region.

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