—🇪🇺/🇷🇸 NEW: European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said she met Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade to discuss reforms needed for Serbia to remain on its EU path and to advance the EU’s Growth Plan for the country.

➡️ She said they agreed to intensify joint work on energy security, reduce dependencies, and cooperate “towards an independent Europe”.

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—🇺🇸/🇷🇸 NEW: US special envoy Richard Grenell said Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic “should follow the US path – not the European path,” directly challenging EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, who had insisted that “Serbia needs to stay firmly on its European path.”

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—🇧🇬 NEW: Outgoing PM Rosen Zhelyazkov signed Bulgaria’s accession to Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace” at a ceremony in Davos, according to our source in Bulgaria.

➡️ The timing of Trump’s letter to Radev has itself become a flashpoint: the outgoing foreign minister claims the invitation was sent earlier and made public late, suggesting a deliberate delay by the presidency, while Radev’s office insists the document was formally received on January 20 and rejects any allegation that it was being concealed.

➡️ Sofia will now submit a draft ratification law to the National Assembly, while opposition leaders and critics warn the step isolates Bulgaria within the EU, note that only a handful of European states such as Hungary have joined, and point to reports that DPS–New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski, still under US Magnitsky sanctions, pushed hard behind the scenes for the country to enter the Board.

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—🇧🇬/🇪🇺 NEW: The EU is a living organism that must adapt to contemporary realities, and the time has come to decide whether all 27 member states still want to move at the same speed, Bulgarian MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew Europe) told BTA.

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—🇦🇱/🇺🇸 WATCH: Albanian PM Edi Rama held a private dinner in the coastal city of Vlora with Ivanka Trump, where guests were treated to a traditional Albanian polyphonic music performance.

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—🇦🇱/🇽🇰 NEW: Albanian PM Edi Rama has voiced support for Vjosa Osmani to serve another term as Kosovo’s president, praising her international role and describing recent backing from the United States as a sign of the personal respect she has earned.

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—🤝🇽🇰/🇺🇸 WATCH: Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani held a lengthy and amicable conversation with US President Donald Trump in Davos before signing the Charter of the Board of Peace as a founding member state on behalf of the Republic of Kosovo.

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—NOTE: The US-led “Board of Peace” has been formally established as an international organization, with Kosovo among its founding members, as President Vjosa Osmani signed the charter at a ceremony in Davos.

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—🇷🇸 NEW: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he is not sure whether Serbia will join US President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace, warning that the initiative has further “divided” Europe as governments split over whether to participate in the new peace forum.

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🇹🇷🤝🇺🇸🇺🇳🕊 — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan signs Board of Peace Charter with President Trump at Davos.

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🇧🇬🌐🤝🇺🇸🇺🇳 — High Representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov at the Board of Peace:

"Who would've thought, two years ago, that we would be sitting here, with this group of countries... giving the people of Gaza a new chance?... For too long, Gazans, Palestinians, and Israelis have lived with conflict, with death, with destruction. Now, the page turns."

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—🤝🇧🇬/🇵🇰 NEW: Bulgaria’s national news agency BTA has signed a news exchange agreement with Pakistan’s Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), enabling the two state agencies to share news content between Sofia and Islamabad on a regular basis.

➡️ The deal aims to expand bilateral media cooperation and improve coverage of political, economic and cultural developments in both countries for their respective audiences.

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—❗️🇧🇦❌🇷🇸 BREAKING: The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has declared the previous Government of Republika Srpska and its decisions unconstitutional, stepping into what RS officials claim is an entity-level matter beyond the court’s mandate.

➡️ The move is expected to trigger a fresh constitutional standoff between Sarajevo institutions and Republika Srpska.

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—🇭🇺/🇲🇰 NEW: Hungary’s 4iG-backed One enters North Macedonia as third mobile operator.

➡️ One Macedonia Telecommunications is a subsidiary of Hungary’s 4iG Group and has been selected and licensed as North Macedonia’s third mobile operator, with 5G spectrum rights across several bands.

➡️ The company has a multi‑year licence and rollout obligations, including initial 5G coverage of at least one city by March 2027 and nationwide 5G coverage by 2030, alongside existing duopoly players Makedonski Telekom and A1.

➡️ 4iG is indeed Hungarian, state‑aligned and expanding regionally under the ONE brand in Albania and Montenegro, and has been repeatedly described as closely tied to Viktor Orbán and his government, including in defence-sector deals and diplomatic lobbying.

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