The EACS Situation Room serves as a dedicated platform for monitoring and analysing critical developments in global security. It is activated in response to major crises or significant shifts in the international security environment.
We are currently tracking key developments in the Western Balkans, with monthly reports providing timely updates and analytical insights.
All reports are prepared by members of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia.
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 9. 8 – 9. 9. 2025
Violent protests erupted in Novi Sad and Valjevo, with demonstrators attacking ruling party officers.
Kosovo’s parliamentary deadlock worsened as the newly elected speaker cannot inaugurate parliament due to missing Serb deputy speaker.
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik called for a referendum on his removal from office by the central election commission.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: BalkanInsight/Djordje Djokovic)
Author: Tara Miler, Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 9. 6 – 9. 7. 2025
Milorad Dodik voluntarily surrenders to Bosnia’s state Prosecutor’s Office after evading arrest for three-and-a-half months.
The United States to impose tariffs on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kosovo’s parliament has still not elected it president after three months and 43 voting attempts.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: kosovapress)
Author: Tara Miler, Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 9. 5 – 9. 6. 2025
Marija Vasić, an activist and member of the Movement of Free Citizens has begun a hunger strike in prison.
Just one day after the SVR reported that Serbia was arming Ukraine, an explosion occurred at a munitions factory in Valjevo.
Milorad Dodik announces measures against Slovenia in the event of sanctions being imposed by the country to the entity.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: RFE/RL)
Author: Igor Zidarič, Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 9. 4 – 9. 5. 2025
Serbian president on a visit to Moscow, while Serbian students protest against corruption with an ultramarathon to Brussels.
High Representative suspends funding for the party of Milorad Dodik.
Kosovo remains without a constituted parliament after more than ten failed attempts.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: RSE/Reuters)
Author: Tara Miler, Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 15.11.2024
Moldovan authorities claim to have identified more than a hundred young people who allegedly trained in Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia to destabilize the country.
– Posters appeared in Belgrade with the title “Make Serbia Great Again” and bearing pictures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
– Russia Today plans to open an office in Banja Luka by the end of the year.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Asociacija Elektronskih Medija/N1)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 4.6.2024
The UN General Assembly adopted, with 84 votes in favour, a resolution declaring 11 July the International Day of Remembrance of the genocide in Srebrenica.
In Belgrade hooligans beat to death Đorđe Mijatović, brother of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH.
Kosovo Prime Minister accuses EU and US of being too lenient with Serbia.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: REUTERS/Dnevnik)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 8.5.2024
Deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopt the report, which recommends the Committee of Ministers to accept Kosovo’s request for membership in this organisation.
The number of migrants who illegally entered BiH in the first two months of this year is almost 70 percent higher than in the same period last year.
The meeting of the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia on the dinar issue ended without an agreement.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Ibrahim Berisha/RFE/RL)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 10.4.2024
The Committee on Politics and Democracy of the Council of Europe approved a report that Kosovo has fulfilled conditions to become a full member of the Council of Europe.
Kosovo Prime Minister claimed preparations are underway to launch prosecution of Serbia for crimes committed during the war in Kosovo.
EU regrets the call by political representatives of Kosovo Serbs to boycott the census and the referendum on dismissal of mayors.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Euronews)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 31.3.2023
Joseph Borell confirms Belgrade and Pristina have reached an agreement on the implementation of the EU plan for normalisation of relations.
The Government of Republika Srpska halts cooperation with the embassies of the United States and the United Kingdom in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Jakov Milatović wins the presidential elections in Montenegro.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Reuters)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 15.3.2023
Serbian President Aleksandar Vućić announced the creation of a new political movement “People’s Movement for the State”.
US special envoy for the Western Balkans expects that Russia will try to interfere in the presidential election campaign in Montenegro through the usual channels of media disinformation.
Republika Srpska has announced a new law that will require organisations that receive donations from abroad to register as foreign agents.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: EPA-EFE/Stephanie Lecocq)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 15.2.2023
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated that he accepted the French-German proposal, because otherwise Kosovo would have found itself in confrontation with its allies.
For the first time since 2005, the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina visited the US.
Several thousand protesters gathered in Tirana, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, accusing him of corruption and the spread of poverty in Albania.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source:EPA/Aljazeera Balkans)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 15.12.2022
Kosovo Serbs erect road barricades after arrest of a Serbian member of the Kosovo police.
Police clash with protesters in Podgorica calling for the abolition of the new Presidential law and new parliamentary elections.
EU leaders confirm candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: EPA-EFE/DJORDJE SAVIC)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 30.11.2022
Kosovo and Serbia have reached an agreement, ending the row over license plates.
Trial begins in the higher court in Podgorica in the case of the attempted »coup d’état« during the 2016 parliamentary election.
Bulgarian cultural club »Czar Boris the Third« in Ohrid attacked again.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Balkan Insight)
Situation Room – Monitoring the Western Balkans, 15.11.2022
Row between Kosovo and Serbia over the use of new license plates continues to escalate.
Montenegrin parliament passed the changes to the law on the president of the country, forcing him to award the mandate for the creation of the government to Miodrag Lekić.
UN Security Council extended EUROFOR mandate in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For more details, please refer to the report at the link.
(Picture source: Balkan Insight)