Southern Balkans

Albanian President Ilir Meta has appealed to Albanians in Macedonia to vote for the historic ‘name’ deal between Macedonia and Greece. Albanian President Ilir Meta has said that a positive result in the upcoming referendum on...

Ahead of the historic referendum on the deal with Greece, Macedonians are increasingly optimistic about joining NATO and the EU, an opinion poll published on Wednesday shows. A nationwide survey by the International Republican Institute, IRI,...

After a journalist was attacked recently in Banja Luka, the main city in Republika Srpska, the question of journalistic safety in Bosnia and Herzegovina is once again in the spotlight. Some blame the country’s high-ranking politicians...

Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a ‘collection’ and ‘labour camp’ and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims. Fresh alterations...

Ten years ago, after Kosovo declared independence, Fatmir Sejdiu received dozens of letters from various different countries saying that they recognised this new state with its current borders. A decade later, the former president said he...

Serbia and Kosovo seem to be turning to Washington rather than Europe to win international support for a final peace deal that may include a much-rumoured swap of land. Recent statements from Washington that the US...

Mourners laid flowers, said prayers and observed a minute’s silence on Tuesday at the site of the Markale market massacre in Sarajevo on August 28, 1995, when 43 people including three children were killed and 84...

Bulgaria’s higher educational institutions have announced hundreds of vacant places on courses in the 2018-2019 academic year – as European universities continue to lure away the country’s best students. Top universities in Bulgaria have announced hundreds...

Serbia’s sole oil firm NIS, majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft, is a frequent participant – sometimes the only corporate participant – in government working groups drafting energy legislation directly affecting the work of the company, according...

Aleksandar Vucic’s government in Serbia has been sabotaging negotiations with Kosovo over the latter’s international status. That much is apparent to anyone who has followed the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue since its inception in 2011. What has only recently become...