Politics

Donald Trump may have dismissed Bob Woodward’s Fear as “a joke”, but readers are showing themselves to be keen to share in the comedy, with more than 750,000 copies of the White House exposé sold in American...

The recent willingness of the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia to consider border changes has set off alarm bells in Europe and the Balkans, where ethnic and territorial disputes have often led to instability and war,...

While Moldova’s authorities have given only vague information about Sunday’s car accident involving President Igor Dodon, some of his fellow Socialists insist someone was trying to kill him. After Moldova’s President, Igor Dodon, was involved in...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is marking the final countdown for the country’s next general elections, which take place in a few weeks’ time on October 7. Although the official campaign only starts 30 days before polling day,...

Russia has come under a sustained barrage of almost universal condemnation as nations lined up at the UN security council in New York to decry its role in the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks. A day after the...

Kosovo and Serbia are rushing to an agreement, adjusting borders as the basis for normalizing relations. There is, however, an alternative to adjusting borders. In exchange for Serbia’s recognition of its sovereignty, Kosovo would address the...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT has agreed to remove three judges from the appellate procedure in the case of the former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT,...

A roundtable organised on Wednesday in Kosovo by BIRN Kosovo’s show “Jeta ne Kosove” heard local politicians warn that a territorial swap between Serbia and Kosovo could worsen regional instability. Albin Kurti, leader of the opposition...

German officials and members of Romania’s small ethnic German community have protested strongly after several ruling Social Democrat officials called the country’s ethnic German president ‘a Nazi’. Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party have come under heavy...

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and the Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, are trying to benefit politically from their dispute over potential “border corrections” as part of a deal with Serbia, Behlul Beqaj, a former adviser to Thaci...