Hartwell: Disturbing trend of EU fact neglect following terrorist attack in Banja

However, from this situation Serbia was averted without any punitive measures from the West, though facts on the ground, according to Kosovo authorities, testified to Belgrade's direct involvement in the terrorist attack.

The trend of how the European bloc is neglecting facts on the ground while focusing selectively on information that harmonizes with their beliefs about the September 24th terrorist attack on the top explorer at the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) with headquarters in Washington, D.C. The United States of America, Leon Hartwell, is extremely disturbing.

Before the terrorist attack on Banja, EU officials seemed to have concluded that Vucic was a stabilising force in the unstable Balkans despite his authoritarian tendencies. Polythologists often use the term "stabilocracy" to describe his regime ʹ a term referring to an autocratic government that receives Western support due to false belief that it provides regional stability, despite its domestic democratic deficits”, Hartwell tells the Albanian Post.

With the consensus that Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, is demonstrating his unwillingness to engage in trust in the process of dialogue and willingness to destabilise the security situation in the region, Hartwell, in an interview for Albanian Post suggests Western policymakers should be deeply concerned because de-stability in the Balkans has a tendency to spread beyond the region.

The time has come for a deep reevaluation of Western diplomacy in the Balkans”.