The process of transition in 🇷🇸 isn’t instantaneous. First election result will be certified, new parliament will convene and then Student List must agree on PM and ministers and also on key issues of domestic and foreign policy. But in expectation of all this the dynamics of the region is already changing.

This is interesting. Key Putin 🇷🇺 aide Ushakov admits that the Anchorage plan of having Trump 🇺🇸 force Zelensky 🇺🇦 into agreeing to their demands hasn’t worked because of the role of Europe. That’s it: if Europe stays the course, 🇷🇺 can’t win.

Decisive win for Student List in 🇷🇸 and Vucic conceding defeat. Now it’s time for 🇪🇺 to accelerate and send clear signal on an open door for a 🇷🇸 with a reform government. But presidential elections must be held, and a new government set up.

The conventional wisdom talks about globalization slowly going into reverse - but the facts speak the opposition. Trade is however slowing between 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 - but that’s just 2% of global trade. The rest looks like booming. @DHLGlobal

There hasn’t been an active nuclear weapons program in 🇮🇷 since 2003, as confirmed by all Western intelligence agencies, but now Netanyahu is trying to scare the voters in Israel 🇮🇱 with images of a nuclear attack against Tel Aviv. He seeks a mandate for renewed war. cdn.i24news.tv/uploads/4f/e5…

Here @ecfr on different post-election scenarios for 🇷🇸. All will have repercussions throughout the region.

Voting has started in 🇷🇸 with the future of the Vucic-run rule there to be decided. There might well be controversy in interpreting the result that will be announced.

It looks less than good in Tirana 🇦🇱 tonight. Hooligans and troublemakers no doubt, but against the background of genuine grievances.

Will see what the Israel 🇮🇱 election results in, but there is a very serious risk of an escalating conflict in the Gulf region by November. Everyone is likely to lose from it, but that is unfortunately unlikely to stop things.

Yes, Bosnia 🇧🇦 deserves better than the current international and domestic stalemate.

Massive turnout yesterday evening supporting the Students List prior to Sunday’s election in 🇷🇸. But it’s not yet of the size that brought down Milosevic once upon a time.

A rainy autumn morning in Stockholm 🇸🇪 with Catania 🇮🇹 my flight destination of the day.

War is about to start up again. The 🇺🇸 would not do this move if they were not planning to restart military operations.

Is something happening in Pyongyang 🇰🇵? Unusual blockage or breakdown of all internet in the country. Could be accident, but could also be deliberate to stop the spread of information.

Things go from bad to worse. Trump 🇺🇸 seems to regret that 🇷🇺 didn’t conquer 🇺🇦 immediately, and blame the failure on some incompetent 🇷🇺 general. Who feeds him this strange stuff? Or does he just invent it because he wishes it was so?

Naturally the riots in 🇫🇷 are big in the news, but it looks fairly volatile in 🇦🇱 as well. Protests have been going on for weeks, and they certainly don’t look like calming down.

After today’s meeting in Oslo 🇳🇴, which hopefully repaired some of the damage created in the last few days, the Trump 🇺🇸 envoy Witkoff will fly to St Petersburg alone to meet Putin 🇷🇺. Expect Putin to sell him another diversionary maneuver. It normally works.

Is 🇪🇺 heading for a big 🇫🇷 crisis in the years ahead? @ecfr looks at the different issues with a possible RN leadership, and to this should of course be added the no less serious fiscal and financial problems that could be coming.