{"id":58388,"date":"2023-08-07T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=58388"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:35:04","slug":"der-spiegel-vucic-the-puppeteer-of-belgrade-who-could-set-the-balkans-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/der-spiegel-vucic-the-puppeteer-of-belgrade-who-could-set-the-balkans-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Spiegel: Vu\u010di\u0107, the Puppeteer of Belgrade who could set the Balkans on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProtests in his own country, supporters attacking KFOR soldiers, and a shadowy figure as the head of intelligence: Despite all this, [Serbian President Aleksandar] Vu\u010di\u0107 is still considered an important negotiating partner in the West. [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is likely pleased with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is what the renowned German magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/ausland\/aleksandar-vucic-in-serbien-wie-er-in-kosovo-montenegro-und-bosnien-zuendelt-a-2b2a3e42-4124-4214-812f-8398876179c5\"><strong>Der Spiegel<\/strong><\/a>, writes in an article, about Serbia blatantly tolerated by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>The policy being pursued by Belgrade towards developments in the region risks reigniting the Balkans, says the article from Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>According to the German magazine, Belgrade\u2019s actions and the language used by Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 could set the Balkans on fire. The attack on KFOR soldiers in the northern part of Kosovo, guns acquisition from China, and the lack of screening from Russia are developments that should have elicited a different response from Brussels and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The German media states that it is incomprehensible how, despite all these problems, a part of Western diplomacy views Vu\u010di\u0107 as a stabilizing factor.<\/p>\n<p>The article also mentions the head of the Serbian Secret Service, Aleksandar Vulin, who is known to be an avid supporter of Russia and regularly makes nationalist calls against other nations in the region during election campaigns. Vulin talks about the \u201cSerbian world\u201d just as Vladimir Putin talks about the \u201cRussian world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the German media, the head of the Secret Service often says in public what Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 cannot say.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, the German magazine also criticizes the EU envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Laj\u010d\u00e1k. The latter responded appropriately during a meeting where Vu\u010di\u0107 claimed that the Serbian people in Kosovo have been subjected to \u201cthe most terrible persecution\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProtests in his own country, supporters attacking KFOR soldiers, and a shadowy figure as the head of intelligence: Despite all this, [Serbian President Aleksandar] Vu\u010di\u0107 is still considered an important negotiating partner in the West. [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is likely pleased with this.\u201d This is what the renowned German magazine, Der Spiegel, writes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":58389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[932,3759,308,817,300,243,151,428,791,770,301,490,787,2049],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Der Spiegel: Vu\u010di\u0107, the Puppeteer of Belgrade who could set the Balkans on fire - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/der-spiegel-vucic-the-puppeteer-of-belgrade-who-could-set-the-balkans-on-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Der Spiegel: Vu\u010di\u0107, the Puppeteer of Belgrade who could set the Balkans on fire - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cProtests in his own country, supporters attacking KFOR soldiers, and a shadowy figure as the head of intelligence: Despite all this, [Serbian President Aleksandar] Vu\u010di\u0107 is still considered an important negotiating partner in the West. 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