Europe | A Balkans arms race
Serbia is on a shopping spree for weapons
And its neighbours don’t like it
|BELGRADE
“COME WITH me,” says Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s president. “Now you are going to see a smile on my face!” From the terrace of Belgrade’s presidency building he points at skyscrapers shooting up and declares triumphantly: “Like a phoenix rising from the ashes!”
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “A Balkans arms race”
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