Southern Balkans

Global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International put Bulgaria among the countries in which there is “little or no enforcement” deterring foreign companies from paying bribes. Bulgaria is among 22 countries that have little or no enforcement to...

Perfume permeates the air inside the Uhud mosque in the southwestern Kosovo city of Prizren, the country’s unofficial cultural capital and for centuries a major Balkan crossroad for traders and religions. Women read aloud in unison...

When a nationalist T-shirt shop and online store in the Croatian city of Split wanted to celebrate the World War II fascist Ustasa movement without getting into trouble with the authorities, it came up with a...

A number of Bulgarian, Romanian and Croatian MEPs backed Hungary in the European Parliament motion condemning its perceived breaches of core EU values. Bulgarian, Croatian and Romanian members of the European Parliament, MEPs, from various groups...

In his last state of the union address, the European Commission chief said that if the EU does not unite to shape the destiny of the Western Balkans, ‘others’ will step in and do so instead....

A UN Human Rights Council working group said that four Balkan countries have made little progress in depoliticising the issue of resolving the fate of missing persons from the 1990s wars. The UN Human Rights Council’s...

The US State Department banned Bosnian Serb lawmaker Nikola Spiric and members of his immediate family from entering the US because of his alleged involvement in corruption. The US State Department on Monday barred Nikola Spiric,...

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,...

A Romanian court ruled that a notorious hacker known as Guccifer will be extradited to serve a sentence in the US after he finishes his jail time in his home country. Romanian hacker Guccifer – real...

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...