Southern Balkans

Greece’s parliament on Friday backed ratification of the highly controversial agreement that is designed to end the decades-long dispute over Macedonia’s name. In the vote that ended at 14.30 pm local time, 153 MPs from the...

The high import tax that Kosovo has imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia has been good news for exporters from Albania and Macedonia, data show. After Kosovo imposed a tax of 100 per cent on Serbian and Bosnian...

Nazif Mehmeti, a former commander with the Kosovo Liberation Army’s military police force, was interviewed for two days as a war crimes suspect by the Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office. Nazif Mehmeti, a former commander of the...

Four international companies have already indicated their interest in buying the troubled state company Kosovo Telecom, before the actual bidding process has formally opened. “Several international companies have shown interest in the privatisation of Telecom: A1...

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council has elected Gordana Tadic as the new chief state prosecutor, making her the first woman in the country’s history to hold the position. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s judicial overseer,...

One day last month, in the main Jewish cemetery in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, a few volunteers busied themselves mowing grass, trimming trees and resetting dilapidated headstones. The work was the initiative of the capital’s dwindling...

The challenges that await the European Union in 2019 will likely again delay Kosovo’s hopes of obtaining a visa-free regime, and keep its citizens waiting in long lines at embassies’ doors, experts warn. They add that...

The public disagreements between Kosovo’s President and Prime Minister over the tariffs imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia are undermining the country’s negotiating position, an expert has warned. Disagreements between Kosovo leaders over the 100-per-cent...

The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the...

A full week after Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska celebrated its disputed January 9 ‘statehood day’, the fallout has not abated. While Bosnian Serbs appear to defend the celebration more as a matter of principle...