Daniel Serwer, an expert on political developments in the Western Balkans, has published an article by former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahović. Vlahović argues that the West’s softened policy towards Serbia is causing instability in the Western Balkans.
Serwer, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, shared Vlahović’s article on his blog. The article includes references to Kosovo and Vučić’s interventionist tendencies.
“Western appeasement policy towards Serbia has now handed Montenegro over to Moscow. The Biden administration wasted four years pushing the anti-European project known as ‘Open Balkans’. This has enabled Vučić to intervene not only in Montenegro but also in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, with inevitable negative implications for North Macedonia,” Vlahović wrote.
He further explained that Serbian arms and ammunition shipments to Ukraine and significant lithium exploitation contracts in Serbia have facilitated this.
“They are both explanation and verdict. The EU’s continued financial support for Serbia, despite other behaviors from Belgrade, reveals its true intentions, condemning the rest of the Balkans to instability,” wrote former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahović.
