Southern Balkans

Bosnia’s new State Energy Strategy wrongly relies on an increase in thermal power – despite its poor cost efficiency and negative impact on the environment – and its funding model is unclear, an energy expert warns....

In its foreign policy, Croatia has long turned much of its attention towards neighbouring Bosnia, where it increasingly openly advocates the creation a third, mainly Croat, entity, to supplement the existing Bosniak and Serb-dominated two. These...

As human rights activists demand an end to weapons sales to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi-led coalition’s deadly air strike on Yemen, new pictures show Serbian weapons being used in the Yemeni conflict on both sides....

“It’s weeping – a weeping fortress,” conservation architect Stella Duleva told BIRN, describing the white substance leaking from the newly-restored walls of the 4th-century Roman fort of Trayanovi Vrata in Bulgaria. “It had survived 16 centuries,...

Moldovan authorities have said they will permit both Pro-Russian and pro-Romanian protesters to rally simultaneously in the capital, Chisinau, on Saturday. The Moldovan authorities have authorised simultaneous protests in the Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau...

Bulgaria has a lot to boast about in terms of mountains, with no less than eight peaks over 2,000 meters high. The Pirin, Rila, Vitosha and Balkan mountains are popular destinations for weekend tourism and multi-day...

The city of Tighina, known as Bender by Transnistrians, was one of the main battlefields in the hot summer of 1992 when, between June 19 and 22, the Moldovan army fought a joint army of Transnistrian...

Three Bulgarian ministers stepped down on Friday, after Prime Minister Boyko Borissov requested their resignations following the deaths of 17 people died in an accident on a mountain road. Bulgaria’s Interior Minister, Valentin Radev, the Transport...

After a European Parliamentary Committee, LIBE, voted on Thursday in favour of visa liberalisation for Kosovo, its leaders greeted the development as a welcome step towards ending the current barriers on free movement. In a landmark...

The government in Podgorica says it is still considering an Italian request for Montenegro to take in some of the migrants stuck in an Adriatic port in Sicily. Montenegro confirmed on Wednesday that it has been...