Southern Balkans

Croatia’s centre-right government has hustled changes to the law on privatisation of the national oil company through parliament, to harmonize the law with EU legislation and so avoid a lawsuit – but MPs have denounced it...

Romania’s governing Social Democrats have gone into a frenzy since Laura Codruta Kovesi, the ousted former chief prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate, the DNA, was put on the short list for the new post of...

Government members, former prime ministers, ambassadors and religious leaders gathered outside the government building in Skopje on Tuesday for the symbolic raising of the NATO flag, as Macedonia makes its final steps towards membership. Prime Minister...

Former senior guerrilla Lahi Brahimaj told BIRN on Monday evening that he has been invited for questioning by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which is investigating crimes committed in Kosovo during and after the...

Zagreb officials condemned an attack on three Red Star Belgrade water polo players in the coastal city of Split – one of whom jumped into the sea to escape his assailants. The Croatian government and President...

Moving ahead with a plan to take full control of the once-mighty Trepca complex of lead, zinc and silver mines, Kosovo has locked horns with former master Serbia over the fate of an industrial icon claimed...

Ahead of a vote in the Greek parliament on Friday, which is expected to ratify its neighbour’s accession to NATO, Macedonia is gearing up to start using its newly agreed name – Republic of North Macedonia....

Macedonia took a big step towards full NATO membership on Wednesday when NATO state ministers in Brussels signed its accession protocol– which will enable it to become the club’s 30th member under its new name, Republic...

A long column of people attending the tenth anti-government protest in nine weeks in Belgrade called on Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to resign – as the first solidarity protest took place also in the divided northern...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan late last year hailed the completion of construction of the main phase of the Turkish Stream pipeline during a meeting in Istanbul. TurkStream – as...