Southern Balkans

 Sofia Members of Croatia’s LGBTIQ community and their supporters gathered in front of the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on Saturday for the capital’s 17th Pride March. This year’s Pride March comes in the midst of a rise...

The UK is deploying around 40 military personnel to Bosnia to ensure ‘free and fair’ elections and counter “malign external influence.” Britain’s defence secretary Gavin Williamson announced on Friday the deployment of additional troops to Bosnia...

Macedonia is soon to change its restrictive abortion law, which sparked widespread criticism from rights activists when it was adopted five years ago, the health minister said. The new law on abortion, whose draft version is...

Botched privatization processes and the subsequent bankruptcy and closure of many once prosperous public companies in Bosnia over the past years have left tens of thousands of middle-aged people without employment or hope of new jobs. While...

What a paradox! Concurrently with assuming the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, Croatia is facing a tide of populist and political manifestations that threaten to severely shake the institutions and structure of...

Spain’s new prime minister may have lined up with Catalan and Basque nationalists in toppling his predecessor, but Pedro Sanchez’s choice of cabinet suggests no let-up in Madrid’s hard-line stance on Catalan independence, and by extension...

MPs voted to back the ruling GERB party’s proposal to restart the building of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant as a “market-oriented” state collaboration with a strategic investor. The Bulgarian parliament on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in...

The European Federation of Journalists adopted a resolution urging a new Hague-based court to investigate killings and disappearences of ethnic Albanian and Serb journalists connected to the Kosovo conflict. The European Federation of Journalists, EFJ adopted...

After eight years of talks, the Albanian government approved an agreement with the International Commission on Missing Persons to find and identify some of the 6,000 victims killed by the Communist regime. The government agreed on...

The deal was brought to the UK’s attention because two British-based brokers had requested – and were eventually refused – licences to mediate the Bosnia-Saudi deal. Though Bosnian officials said it had no record of a...