Southern Balkans

A regional forum on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology aims to boost chances for Bosnians starting their own businesses, but bureaucratic complexities still create problems for the country’s budding businesspeople. Denis Zvizdic, the chair of Bosnia and...

Basking in the glow of a creditor settlement to save the biggest private company in the Balkans, Croatia’s governing elite, including the prime minister, filed into the National Library in Zagreb late last month for the...

Ervin Ceta, a former boxing champion, grew up in an apartment building facing the playing fields of the Halim Xhelo High School in the city of Vlora’s Kushtrimi neighbourhood, where he would play football with the...

Few young artists can boast works on display in cities around the world, and still claim to live largely hand-to-mouth. But Andrej Zikic, better known by his tag Artez, says this is the life of the...

The Romanian government faces strong opposition after a local environmental protection agency issued a permit allowing one of the country’s biggest, oldest and most polluting coal-based power-plants to function indefinitely. Greenpeace Romania and the ClientEarth environmental...

Activists staged a protest in Belgrade over the conviction of eight Youth Initiative for Human Rights members who disrupted a speech by convicted Serbian war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin in 2017. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights,...

There are about 40,000 ethnic Albanians in Serbia who are eligible to vote in the elections on Sunday for seats on the Albanian National Council, ANC, but observers and potential voters agree that there is little...

The Albanian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek ambassador for a second time in three days, demanding clear condemnation of anti-Albanian incidents in Greece sparked by the shooting of a Greek-Albanian. Albania lodged a new protest with...

At a meeting with Moldova’s pro-Russian President Igor Dodon, who was seeking his backing before elections, Vladimir Putin overestimated the amount of Moldovan exports to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday gave inflated figures for...

Dwindling print advertising, scandal-mongering headlines and hidden ownership are tarnishing popular trust in the country’s leading political newspapers, says a new market analysis of Bulgarian media. A new study carried out for the Bulgarian branch of the Association...