Southern Balkans

While world leaders greet the agreement between Macedonia and Greece over Macedonia’s name, both governments are facing bitter criticism from their political opponents back home. While leaders in Brussels, Washington and the region have showered praise...

The 30-year-old Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter which crashed near Krumovo air force base, killing both pilots, probably suffered a technical problem, officials said. A Mi-17 military transportation helicopter crashed on Monday evening near Krumovo air force base...

Serbia’s health and environment ministries agreed to begin a state-sponsored investigation of the alleged effects on public health caused by the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar and Environment Minister Goran...

Kosovo’s Minister for Trade says that while Pristina wants to scrap trade barriers with Tirana and create a ‘joint market’, Albania is doing nothing in practice to support the initiative.   Kosovo’s Minister of Trade, Bajram...

Social Policy Minister Biser Petkov quit because he couldn’t meet demands made by protesting parents of disabled children – but after initially accepting his resignation, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov ordered him back to work. Prime Minister...

After the UK announced it will deploy around 40 military personnel to ensure ‘free and fair’ elections in Bosnia this autumn, the Bosnian Serb leader, Milorad Dodik, has accused Britain of interfering in the country’s affairs....

Artists, actors and opposition MPs have denounced the government’s plan to adopt a special law that will award the site of the current National Theatre to a private company to build a new theatre in exchange...

In the Balkans, good news can sometimes be hard to find. So why wouldn’t a deputy prime minister cut the ribbon at the unveiling of a toilet, or a cabinet minister christen an elevator? They did,...

Representatives of FIFA, Kosovo sports federations, senior Kosovo and regional state officials and many citizens paid homage at the parliament building to the football legend, Fadil Vokrri who died on Saturday in the capital Pristina after...

An Albanian national carrier, a proposed joint venture between Turkish Airlines and a new Albanian investment company, will begin flying this summer, one of its co-owners says. Proposed flag carrier Air Albania, a joint venture being...