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Florian Bieber

@fbieber.bsky.social
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🦫, professor, coordinator BiEPAG, director CSEES Uni. Graz, President ASN, in english, Deutsch i naški. Seriously Balkans Podcast.

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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With one week to go, we are looking forward to welcoming everyone to Belgrade and getting these discussions underway. Explore the full programme, including panels, speakers, presentation titles, and schedule: asn2026.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/panels/
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Panels - ASN Belgrade 2026
Panels 8.45–10.15 Panel 1 (1st Floor): Minority Recognition in Southeast Europe Chair Nur Çetiner (Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey) nrctnr@gmail.com  Papers
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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bringing together perspectives from different disciplines, regions, and historical periods. The programme also features keynote lectures by @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social and @fbieber.bsky.social.
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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are delighted to present @fbieber.bsky.social as one of the keynote speakers of the 2026 ASN European Conference, Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises. He is Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies ⬇️
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Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft @sudosteuropa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📹 Our video recording of last's week Solidarity Award Ceremony is now online! Tune in for MP @boris-mijatovic.bsky.social's laudation, Igor Božić's acceptance speech and a conversation on Serbia's media landscape with Prof Dr. @fbieber.bsky.social. 📎 Link: youtu.be/X3AXRKz7I1g
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The 2026 Solidarity Award for Journalists from Southeast Europe goes to Igor Božić
YouTube video by Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📋 New BiEPAG policy brief is out! When competitive authoritarian regimes fall at the ballot box, there is a narrow window for reform. Yet most democratic breakthroughs fail. @fbieber.bsky.social, Claudia Laštro, and Enej Lovrečič examine why and what must change. Read now: tinyurl.com/jck8k2j5
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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📅 18–20 Sept 2026 📍 Belgrade, Serbia 🎤 Keynotes: @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social (@ucddublin.bsky.social) & @fbieber.bsky.social (@uni-graz.at ) 🔬 Supported in part by Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (IMAGINATION project) #ASNBelgrade2026 #NationalismStudies
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Generally not the language I would recommend using when talking to the citizens you are supposed to represent.
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Franziska Tschinderle @tschinderle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Wird das noch was mit der EU-Erweiterung? Und was geht ab in den Ländern auf dem Balkan, die seit 23 Jahren im Warteraum hocken? Dazu habe ich eine 8-teilige Podcast-Serie gemacht: jetzt frei verfügbar bei Ö1 und bei ORF Sound
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ich habe mit @zdfheute.de.web.brid.gy über die Proteste in Albanien gesprochen: www.zdf.de/play/magazin...
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Flamingo-Proteste in Albanien: Warum sie sich nicht nur gegen die Trump-Familie richten
Tausende demonstrieren gegen den Bau eines Luxusresorts in einem Naturschutzgebiet. Wie der Flamingo zum Symbol des Protests wurde – ZDFheute live.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Zu den Protesten in Albanien mein Interview für WDR5 www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
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Proteste in Albanien: "Fordern politischen Neuanfang"
Ein in einem Naturschutzgebiet geplantes Luxusresort mit Beteiligung von Ivanka Trump hat in Albanien eine Protestbewegung ausgelöst. Dahinter stecke auch der Kampf um Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Demokrat...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Eine Besprechung und Zusammenfassung meines Buches über die Protestbewegung in Serbien. www.l-iz.de/bildung/buec...
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Was Autokraten fürchten: Wie die Serben seit anderthalb Jahren versuchen, ihren Autokraten loszuwerden · Leipziger Zeitung
Wenn man den derzeitigen Nachrichten glauben darf, dann sind Autokratien weltweit im Vormarsch. Als wäre das ein Naturgesetz und die Menschen würden
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🔔 This month, we will present chapters from our forthcoming BiEPAG study on mining in the Western Balkans. Florian Bieber (@fbieber.bsky.social) explores the geopolitical dimensions of mining projects and growing competition over critical raw materials in the region. 📘 Read ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y699t978
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Ich habe mit SRF über mein neues Buch gesprochen www.srf.ch/news/interna...
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Analyse von Autokratien - Was fürchten Autokraten?
Osteuropaexperte Florian Bieber hat ein Buch darüber geschrieben, was Bürgerproteste bewirken können.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Out now The stabilitocracy trap. How the EU enables autocratization in its neighborhood with Cengiz Günay, open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The stabilitocracy trap. How the EU enables autocratization in its neighborhood
The article examines how the EU's foreign policy, centered on stability, has contributed to autocratization in the EU's neighborhood. It explores this process on the cases of Serbia, Turkey, and Tu...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I added my 10c to this bio of Vučić for @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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How Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic sees the world
As antigovernment protests in Serbia continue into their second year, who is the man maintaining a grip on power?
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🔔 Seriously Balkans – The BiEPAG Talks ep.22 🔹 The Student Protest Movement in Serbia: What does the Future hold? 🎙️ Our BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social is hosting his guests: 🔸Marina Vulović 🔸Jelena Vasiljević 🔸 Nikola Burazer 👇 Tune in now 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1Y48...
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Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung @leibniz-ios.de · 24/02/2026
Discussants: - @fbieber.bsky.social, Center for Southeast European Studies, Univ. of Graz – Aynur Kanafina, UNFPA Eastern Europe & Central Asia – Eva Fodor, @weareceu.bsky.social – Maja Gerovska Mitev, Univ. of Skopje Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS) Panel w/ @sudosteuropa.bsky.social
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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hvar in the Modern Age by @fbieber.bsky.social traces the history of the island using it as a lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states & identity, tourism & the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea & the region of southeast Europe. 🔓 bit.ly/49LfcLF
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Ich habe an einem Podcast über die Geschichte des Kosovo mitgemacht, der nun auf Ö1 zu hören ist: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Out now: The Yugoslav Wars as a Palimpsest. Ontological Security, Serbia’s Anti-Western Narratives, and the War in Ukraine with Global Studies Quarterly, open access: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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The Yugoslav Wars as a Palimpsest. Ontological Security, Serbia’s Anti-Western Narratives, and the War in Ukraine
Abstract. The Russian aggression against Ukraine triggered memories of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s throughout the countries that experienced war. From t
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
@ifdtbeograd.bsky.social brings Joseph Stiglitz to Belgrade, Vučić brings ćaci Jeffrey Sachs to Belgrade.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I had chance to talk to Danica Vučenić on N1 about Vučićs refusal to go to Brussels n1info.rs/vesti/biber-...
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Biber: Nedolazak srpskog predstavnika u Brisel je jako loša poruka, ide na štetu Srbije
Profesor Univerziteta u Gracu Florian Biber poručio je da nedolazak srpskog predstavnika na Samit EU - Zapadni Balkan
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Apply to the @asn-org.bsky.social conference in Belgrade next year organized by ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/12/asn-...
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ASN European Conference: Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises, 18–20 September 2026
As an interdisciplinary event, the conference welcomes contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, literature, political science, gender studies, psychology,...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Join us in Graz for a semester! The new call for applications for visiting fellows at the field of excellence Dimensions of Europe is open. Deadline 15 March: dimensions-of-europe.uni-graz.at/en/visiting-...
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CALL 2026/2027 - Dimensions of Europe
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I talked to DW about EU enlargement and Vučićs proposal for a WB6 big bang www.dw.com/en/eu-enlarg...
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Western Balkans summit: All together now? – DW – 12/17/2025
Should all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU at the same time, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has suggested? What are the pros and cons? And how do the countries in question feel...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
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After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law had sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Just published: the second edition of Debating Nationalism available at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-... for less than 20 GBP!
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I spoke to @rfi.fr about the rise of the far-right in Croatia www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
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Accents d'Europe - Trente ans après les accords de paix, les Balkans toujours divisés
Il y a tout juste trente ans, la diplomatie américaine parvenait à conclure un accord de paix mettant fin à la guerre des Balkans, qui a fait 100 000 morts et deux millions de déplacés. Mais les accor...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
When research becomes an AI generated lottery. It reveals the fundamental flaws of the system which has been a lottery for years eualive.net/horizon-euro...
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Horizon Europe applicants slam Commissioner Zaharieva’s “lottery” plan
At a conference of the scientific community held recently in a large European city, applicants ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/12/2025
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
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Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Great honor: most corrupt association gives most corrupt man in the world newly invented prize.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I think the Nobel committee should start handing out a football world cup. There will come a day when FIFA will deeply embarrassed for sucking up to autocratic sociopath
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Tito's head stolen in Slovenia and found in a car with Croatian plates. Sometimes reality is better fiction.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Wie sich Vučić politisch in die Ecke manövriert. Meine Kommentare für @derstandard.at www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Es wird enger für Serbiens Präsident Vučić
Im eigenen Land und auch international steigt der Druck auf Aleksandar Vučić, es gibt das Risiko eines Bruchs mit Russland. "Wenn ein Partner wegfällt, wird Vučić' Spielraum kleiner", sagt Experte Flo...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Few have contributed more to relativizing fascism in Croatia than Thompson. It is good news that the mayor of Zagreb and the city council are reacting www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...
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Thompson: Pozivam Tomaševića na razum, inače ćemo povući puno radikalnije poteze
NASTAVLJA se prepiranje Tomaševića i Thompsona.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
30 Jahre Dayton war der Anlass für ein ein Gespräch mit dem DLF: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/30-jahre-ver...
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30 Jahre Vertrag von Dayton - wie stabil ist das Konstrukt Bosnien-Herzegowina?
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Orel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The mark of a great book: a write-up by the inimitable Holly Case.
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Great workshop on protests in 🇷🇸 www.insajder.net/vesti/diskus...
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Diskusija na IFDT-u: Studenti pokreću novu eru društvene mobilizacije i demokratizacije u Srbiji (VIDEO)
Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju u Beogradu okupio je istraživače iz Srbije i inostranstva kako bi analizirali dosad neviđeni talas društvene mobilizacije u Srbiji, koji predvode studenti. T...
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Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju @ifdtbeograd.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Workshop: Protests & New Democracy Horizons Researchers analyse the student-led mobilisation wave in Serbia (emotions, identity, plenums). Public Discussion: M. Stojanović (Građanske inicijative), @fbieber.bsky.social (@uni-graz.at), @vujoilic.bsky.social (IFDT) Mod: @gazelapudar.bsky.social (IFDT)
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We had a great discussion on the student protests in Serbia with Jelena Lončar, Filip Balunović and Aleksandar Tomanić. Available online here 👇 nationalities.org/virtual-asn/...
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A YEAR OF RESISTANCE: STUDENT PROTESTS IN SERBIA - Association for the Study of Nationalities
A Year of Resistance: How Students Challenged Serbia’s Authoritarian Turn November 13, 2025 For over a year, hundreds of thousands of citizens across Serbia have participated in protests, blockades, a...
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🔸How Montenegro Turned on Turkey - The Politics of Panic and Hate ✍️ blog by @jomarovic.bsky.social 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. 🔗 tinyurl.com/436kccd5 #Turkey #Montenegro #VisaRegime #EU #WesternBalkans
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The cover for my book on protests in Serbia just dropped. Comments welcome (changes are still possible).
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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
🔔BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social for savremenapolitika.com 🔹Student list in Serbia is an extraordinary experiment in democracy "The student movement does not offer a comprehensive political alternative, but return of politics to the public space." savremenapolitika.com/biber-studen...
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Biber: Studentska lista je izuzetan demokratski eksperiment - Savremena politika
Studentski pokret ne može ponuditi sveobuhvatnu političku alternativu, ali to ni nije potrebno. Ovo je borba koja ima za cilj da uspostavi osnovne uslove za politiku.
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Nikolaos Tzifakis @tzifakis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
@fbieber.bsky.social explains the concept of #stabilitocracy: econtent.pedis.uop.gr/jmc-eupf-wb/... 2/6.
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What is stabilitocracy? – EU Foreign Policy and the Western Balkans
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
After publishing Boguljub Karics tribute to Charlie Kirk, ifmes is now sharing some antisemitic pamphlet about 'Jewish intelligence power' or as I would call it 'The protocols of the elders of Zion'
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Odnos EU prema Vučiću se menja, više nije garant stabilnosti - Istinomer
Kada predsednik zemlje kandidata za članstvo u EU nazove evroparlamentarce „ološem”, to ne može da prođe nezapaženo. Ne može ni jačanje veza sa Rusijom i Kinom, a ne može ni sve vidljivija represija p...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I know ifimes is weird, but assuming tribute by Bogoljub Karic for Charlie Kirk was not on my bingo card
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I gave an interview to Vijesti about Montenegro 🇲🇪 🇪🇺 accession, democracy and regional dynamics. www.vijesti.me/vijesti/poli...
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INTERVJU Biber za "Vijesti": Ako "padne" Vučić, Crna Gora će najviše profitirati
Ako bi Crna Gora ušla u EU, koja poruka bi time bila poslata Srbiji: da je razlog zašto ona nije ušla - sadašnja vlast. To nije poželjno za Vučića, i on će raditi ...
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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The state of EU integration of Serbia in one picture
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