Southern Balkans

Bosnian government institutions and public companies spent around 4.5 million euros on purchasing vehicles in the first six months of 2018, BIRN’s new database shows. In the first six months of the year, around 4.5 million...

Five years after Croatia joined the EU, all member countries have opened their labour markets to Croats except Austria – which has decided to keep restrictions in place until July 2020. After Slovenia on Friday announced...

Ahead of a referendum due in autumn, Macedonia’s government has launched a social media campaign in support of the historic agreement with Greece over its name. Macedonia’s government has launched what it calls an “informal” campaign...

After its launch in June 1993, satirical weekly Feral Tribune, based in the Croatian coastal city of Split, quickly became the most prominent anti-establishment voice on the government-controlled media scene. When its best-known front page, showing the...

Several hundred Greeks protested in Athens and Thessaloniki against the recent agreement with neighbouring Macedonia over its name. The daily Kathimerini reported that police in Athens used tear gas to disperse the protesters while the rally in Thessaloniki saw minor scuffles...

Five years after it joined the EU on July 1, 2013, Croatia is still weighing up the balance sheet of this momentous change – which, along with NATO membership, completed the process of its detachment from...

Montenegro’s authorities said they will join Serbia and Kosovo in supporting the establishment of the RECOM fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars in the Balkans. The Montenegrin government has committed to signing up to a declaration...

Amid worries in Serbia over the declining use of the Cyrillic script, Belgrade city hall is introducing benefits for companies that promote the country’s traditional alphabet. Worried by the declining use of their ancient script, councillors...

Kosovo police have arrested three persons suspected of terrorism in an operation conducted in collaboration with authorities in Germany. Police in Kosovo on Friday said they had arrested three suspects in relation to terrorism in Prizren...

From July 1, Kosovo prosecutors will be handling serious corruption and war crimes cases without international supervision as the EU’s rule-of-law mission switches to an advisory role. Domestic prosecutors will soon handling cases alone that have...