Politics

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opulent election rally in Sarajevo on Sunday was a carefully stage-managed performance, designed to benefit both Erdogan and his host, the Bosniak member of Bosnia’s tripartite state presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic. For Erdogan, still...

Rumen Radev’s meeting on Tuesday in Sochi with Russia’s President is expected to focus on a major new energy project connecting the two countries. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in...

Macedonia’s prime minister is to submit his proposed government reshuffle to parliament today in a bid to increase his slim majority by adding two small ethnic Albanian parties to his ruling coalition. The reshuffle proposed by...

Skopje’s Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of soliciting bribes from a businessman in his home town of Strumica – a case in which Zaev claimed he was politically framed by the previous...

Mike Pompeo has threatened Iran with the “strongest sanctions in history” if it does not comply with a list of a dozen US demands. In a speech that attempted to lay out the Trump administration’s strategy on...

The EU has drafted business safeguards to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, including prohibiting firms from complying with US sanctions and sending money to Iran’s central bank. Experts doubt such efforts will be enough. The European...

The two leaders discussed Syria, the conflict in Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Iran nuclear deal. Merkel was critical on press and cultural freedom, and a ceasefire breach in Ukraine. German Chancellor Angela...

When the time came for Kosovo doctor Lutfi Dervishi and his son Arban to be imprisoned in 2016 for one of the Balkans’ most gruesome post-war crimes, the pair had vanished. BIRN can reveal that Kosovo...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’schoice of Sarajevo to rally diaspora supporters on May 20 speaks of how unwelcome he has become in some Western capitals – and of the close ties he has cultivated in the...

The EU-Western Balkans summit ended with pledges of European support for the region’s infrastructure and much talk of ‘connectivity’ – but words like ‘integration’ and ‘enlargement’ were notably absent from the declaration. Much work is to...