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The Balkan power map 2035: Serbia’s nuclear decision and its impact on regional alliances and cross-border flows

The Western Balkans and Southeast Europe are entering a new strategic energy era, one in which electricity — its production, exchange, security, and geopolitical meaning — carries more weight than gas pipelines ever did. By 2035, the region’s power map will look radically different from anything recognizable today. Coal will decline, hydropower will fluctuate under climate stress, renewables will surge unevenly across borders, and nuclear energy will return as the defining baseload force of the region. Serbia, long positioned between…