Southern Balkans

Ukraine’s intelligence service has named at least one Moldovan fighting with the privately-run paramilitary ‘Wagner’ group in eastern Ukraine and Syria. Ukraine’s intelligence services, the SBU, has named a Moldovan, Radu “Rodion” Donciu, aged 43, as a mercenary...

The announcement that a monument dedicated to the Albanian historical hero Skenderbeg will be built in Montenegro has yet again opened up a debate in the country about his origins. Albanian political parties in Montenegro on...

As this year’s anniversary of 1995’s Operation Storm approaches, the issue of unpunished war crimes still troubles relations between Croatia and Serbia, as well as causing controversy within Croatian society. The entire Croatian political elite and...

For the past three years, every 21 days, Brunilda Alimerkaj packs a bag and leaves her home in the southern Albanian oil town of Ballsh on a 1,200-kilometre trip to the cobblestone streets of Bergamo in...

Amid growing nervousness in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, NATO commander says the alliance is more than ready to deal with any trouble on the streets. The Commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Force in Naples, Admiral James Fogo,...

It was almost lunchtime at a dormitory on the outskirts of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and an Afghan woman sheltered from the rain in a tent before joining the queue for food. The dormitory...

The Zagreb-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO has produced a guide for politicians on how to apologise for crimes committed during Croatia’s 1995 military operation ‘Storm’ as its anniversary approaches. The Youth Initiative for Human...

The parliamentary group of non-Serb ethnic minority MPs warned they will leave the ruling coalition if the deputy foreign minister is not sacked for allegedly “promoting inter-ethnic hatred” in a Facebook post. Six MPs from the...

Macedonia’s parliament on Monday is expected to formally call for a referendum on the historic deal with Greece that should be held no later than September 30. A formal call for a referendum in Macedonia, backed...

Finance Minister Eugen Teodorescu on Sunday night said he wanted to know why the tax agency had failed to collect allegedly unpaid dues from President Klaus Iohannis for years. Romania’s Finance Minister, Eugen Teodorovici, on Sunday...