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Professor Bekim Sejdiu will be nominated as Kosovo's new president, the president of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lumir Abdixhiku, announced after a meeting with Albin Kurti, the Self-Determination Movement’s leader and acting prime minister.
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Kosovo's acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti said Serbian institutions had blocked more than EUR 2.14 million allocated by the Kosovo government for projects benefiting Albanians in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja.

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Under the slogan “There’s Room for All of Us,” Belgrade’s annual Pride Week began on Aug. 31 and will last until Sept. 6.
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On Aug. 31, the National Assembly of Serbia adopted a revised state budget whereby the total revenue for 2026 was set at RSD2,527.15 billion, which is RSD112.45 billion – i.e. 4.7 percent – higher than envisaged by the original budget.
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The protesting students have announced that they will be talking with citizens from Aug. 28 to 30 as part of a door to door drive and at stands set up in about 20 municipalities, towns and cities in Serbia.
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Army of Republika Srpska general Ratko Mladic will be buried with the highest state honors, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic told Banjaluka's Alternativna TV late on Aug. 27.

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President of the European Council Antonio Costa and Andrej Babis said in Prague that Montenegro had a realistic chance of becoming an EU member in 2028, with Costa emphasizing that enlargement in the Western Balkans was a geopolitical priority.
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Aleksandar Popovic said that the Belgrade University's lower ranking on the Shanghai list has nothing to do with the blockades in the country.
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In collaboration with the Serbia Center (SRCE) party and the Vojvodina chapter of the Movement of Free Citizens, the Solidarity citizens’ movement has been hosting the Erasmus+ project titled Youth in Unpeaceful Europe since Aug. 23.

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On Aug. 27, Luka Causic announced that the wildfire that has been ravaging the Deliblato Sands wildlife preserve since Aug. 5 is finally showing signs of being contained and that the country is currently battling a total of 12 active wildfires. https://t.co/ysYqLMyCRS

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Serbian opposition MPs requested during debate on amendments to a new budget rebalancing act increased funding for student and pupil welfare, the payment of pensions withheld and the allocation of 10 percent of the state budget to agricultural producers.
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Serbia Center party vice president Slobodan Cvejic said that there will be no improvement to conditions at an upcoming election as key things like the voting roll have not been addressed.
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On Aug. 25, Admiral George Wikoff said that the decision whether or not to re-open the bridge over the Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica to vehicular traffic rests with the European Union and Kosovo authorities.
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The criminal complaint lodged by the Ministry of Culture against Estela Radonjic Zivkov, represents “blatant harassment and witness intimidation,” the anti-regime Blockading University Students announced on their website on Aug. 25.
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Ivica Dacic and Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko visited in Nis on Aug. 25 the crew of a Russian plane that is helping firefighters extinguish a fire in Delibatska Pescara on the Stolovi mountain near Kraljevo and Lukovo near Vranje.
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Major journalists’ associations in Serbia on Aug. 25 condemned the incident in Kraljevo, when two journalists were prevented from reporting from a public gathering during Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s visit to the city in central Serbia.
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The European Union has commended the adoption of the first amendments to the Constitution of Montenegro in 13 years.
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Democratic Party warned that the proposed amendments to the Education System Foundations Act to limit the free association of students and institute a legal mechanism for the political persecution.
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Aleksandar Vučić izjavio je da će "moliti i tražiti" od Evrope i SAD da ne dođe do otvaranja mosta na reci Ibar između severnog i južnog dela Mitrovice, koji bi prema pojedinim najavama kosovska policija trebalo da počne da kontroliše od 1. septembra.

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Andrej Babis said that Serbia, together with other Western Balkan countries, should have become part of the Schengen area long ago, criticizing the European Union (EU) for discussing membership before addressing this simpler form of integration.

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