Southern Balkans

The US is set to invest almost $27 million in modernising two military bases in Romania and Bulgaria, according to its defence budget for 2019. The United States Army is set to invest almost $27 million...

Recent weeks have brought a number of stories suggesting intensified contact between politicians from the Balkans and the American far right. They follow meetings between the former (and possibly current) Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Bosnian Serb Prime...

Montenegro’s prospects of joining the European Union and illegal migration are expected to be on the table at Dusko Markovic’s first meeting as premier with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic will be hosted...

The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo will affect the popularity of both presidents, analysts believe. Emilija Brkic from the the Belgrade-based Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, CeSid, told...

International and domestic media watchdogs have accused the government and the opposition of sneaking in legal changes that will further curb press freedom and distort the media market in Macedonia. Macedonia’s government and the opposition have...

Scores of people have filed complaints against the Romanian Gendarmerie and prosecutors have launched a probe of the military security force’s violent intervention against anti-corruption protesters. Scores of people have filed complaints against the Romanian Gendarmerie...

Sources say PPF, recent buyer of Telenor’s SEE assets, is among the interested parties for United Group, a major cable and pay-TV operator in the Balkans. Dutch-based cable and pay-TV operator United Group is to conduct...

In a house in southern Kosovo, beneath a portrait of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a two-year-old boy plays with balloons. The boy cannot be named. He was born on July 15, 2016,...

Moldovan President Igor Dodon took some of his Socialist Party MPs on a pilgrimage to Russian monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece. Moldovan pro-Russian President Igor Dodon left on Monday for a new pilgrimage to Orthodox...

The Croatian tourism sector is thriving but seasonal workers on the coast face tough working conditions, exploitative employers and a lack of protection from the authorities, trade unionists say. Croatia has registered a significant increase in...