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Recent weeks have brought a number of stories suggesting intensified contact between politicians from the Balkans and the American far right. They follow meetings between the former (and possibly current) Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Bosnian Serb Prime...

Montenegro’s prospects of joining the European Union and illegal migration are expected to be on the table at Dusko Markovic’s first meeting as premier with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic will be hosted...

The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo will affect the popularity of both presidents, analysts believe. Emilija Brkic from the the Belgrade-based Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, CeSid, told...

International and domestic media watchdogs have accused the government and the opposition of sneaking in legal changes that will further curb press freedom and distort the media market in Macedonia. Macedonia’s government and the opposition have...

German and French vintners are harvesting their grapes weeks ahead of schedule following the heatwave that has affected much of Europe. While many German farmers have complained that the hot and dry climate has damaged their crops,...

Companies are suffering from a “supply shock” as fewer EU citizens come to the UK, and companies struggle to fill vacancies, according to a survey of 2,000 employers. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)...

Residents of Fukushima have demanded the removal of a statue of a child in a protective suit from outside the city’s railway station, saying it gives the impression that the area is unfit for human habitation...

Turkey’s central bank has acted to stem the lira’s crash, but the intervention was not enough to quell investors’ fears that the country’s financial crisis could spread to European markets. The lira pulled back from from...

Scores of people have filed complaints against the Romanian Gendarmerie and prosecutors have launched a probe of the military security force’s violent intervention against anti-corruption protesters. Scores of people have filed complaints against the Romanian Gendarmerie...

Sources say PPF, recent buyer of Telenor’s SEE assets, is among the interested parties for United Group, a major cable and pay-TV operator in the Balkans. Dutch-based cable and pay-TV operator United Group is to conduct...