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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC

The constitution of Kosovo guarantees the Serbian community one minister in government. Kurti claims the Serbs will be represented in the future government - but not by SL. He believes that Srpska Lista is not really a party but a state, meaning Serbia.

The Culture Ministry on Tuesday announced the findings of the latest excavations at the wreck of the Mentor, a brig that belonged to Britain's Lord Elgin and went down off the island of Kythira, south of the Peloponnese, in 1802, carrying at least 17 crates of antiquities from the Acropolis and elsewhere.

Ten of Hungary's 23 major cities also fell to opposition parties in local elections billed as a trial run for taking on Orban as a united front in parliamentary elections in 2022.

Poland votes

People cast ballots at a polling station in Witow, southern Poland, Photo: EPA-EFE/GRZEGORZ MOMOT

A polling station in a tailor's shop in Czerwonak, in west-central Poland, is decorated for Poland's general election. Photo: EPA-EFE/JAKUB KACZMARCZYK

Ankara sees Serbia as key to the region:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC

A decade ago, in 2008, the annual trade volume between Serbia and Turkey was worth only about 340 million US dollars.

Kinetic 07, the first electric sports car from the Bulgarian company 'Kinetic automotive' during its offical presentation in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia​ on October 10. Photo: EPA-EFE/Vassil Donev.

But Serbia stands to gain little, and could even lose a lot. Its potential gains from a US-led resolution of the conflict can be summed up succinctly: warm words from Europe and the hope of accelerated talks on EU membership.

EU Commission President-designate Ursula von der Leyen (C) arrives to attend the conference of Presidents of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 19 September 2019. EPA-EFE/PATRICK SEEGER

People familiar with the neighbourhood see a plot to drive out residents and gentrify Exarcheia in the interests of foreign investors and big real estate firms, which, they say, are buying up properties at prices kept low by politicians perpetually linking the district with drug-dealing and petty crime.