—⚡️🇲🇪/🇯🇵 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➡️ So far, at least seven parliamentary opposition parties, as well as various extra-parliamentary organisations, have withdrawn from the parliamentary election in favour of the Student List.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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—🇲🇰/🇬🇷 WATCH: A video from a July 19 festival in Meliti, northern Greece, showed participants performing Aleksandar Car Makedonski, a modern Macedonian nationalist song whose lyrics include the line “Go away, Greeks, enough with the lies.”

➡️ On September 8, two Greek citizens from Demetrios Makedon Association submitted the video to the Florina prosecutor, asking authorities to examine whether any offence had been committed.

➡️ The Panhellenic Federation of Macedonian Cultural Associations also called for an official investigation and translation of the lyrics.

➡️ No court ruling has established that singing the song itself constituted a crime.

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Egejski Glas – Егејски Глас published a serious statement describing Greek authorities as a “fascist occupation force” and saying that Macedonians could be left with “no choice” but to “self-organise and begin to arm ourselves” to defend what it called their “enslaved brothers in Aegean Macedonia.”

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—🇲🇰/🇽🇰 NOTE: The post explicitly cited the UÇK/KLA and North Macedonia’s ONA/NLA as precedents.

⚠️ There is currently no public evidence of an armed organisation, recruitment, weapons acquisition or preparations for an uprising connected to the page.

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—🇲🇰 The group behind the armed rhetoric remains unidentified

➡️ Egejski Glas, meaning “Aegean Voice,” is a Macedonian nationalist Facebook page that regularly promotes the concept of “Aegean Macedonia” for the Greek region of Macedonia and uses Slavic Macedonian place names such as Lerin for Florina.

➡️ Balkan Spectator has found no reliable public evidence that Egejski Glas is a registered newspaper, political party, NGO or cultural association.

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