Charges
Former general Ratko Mladić was given a life sentence by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, because of the major crimes he committed during the war – including his responsibilities for the Srebrenica genocide. Yet public opinion in Serbia paid little attention to the charges against him, and to the reasons of the verdict.
Massive investments in infrastructures and finance are a sort of admission charge for China to expand its influence in Europe. Beijing is becoming more and more active in the economy of the Balkans, which are seen as a testing ground for the superpower's growing ambitions in the West.
More in this newsletter: while male victims of homicide have been decreasing in Europe, female haven't: we looked at the data and trends on femicide in many different countries. In Macedonia, the trial on the "Kumanovo case" has ended, but it didn't clear all the doubts on what really happened in those days of 2015.
