Southern Balkans

As Serbia inches forward towards EU membership, its pro-Russian outlook has become more of headache for the country’s ambitious President, Aleksandar Vucic. On the one hand, Vucic shares the pro-Russian sentiment felt by most Serbs entirely....

Aleksandar Vucic expressed concern after several reported attacks on Serbs in Kosovo in recent days, although Kosovo police have insisted that some of the Serbian media coverage was false. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that he...

Sava Janjic, the Serbian Orthodox abbot at the centre of a row over a new road to Montenegro, tells BIRN he won’t let Kosovo ‘illegally’ turn a country lane into an ‘international road’ without a fight....

A city council’s decision to scrap names that sound Turkish or Arabic has drawn complaints from ethnic Turkish parties and the country’s Grand Mufti – who called it racist and intolerant. Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots coalition,...

Two migrant children were injured when Croatian police opened fire on a van driven by people smugglers that refused to stop near the border with Bosnia. Two migrant children suffered gunshot wounds while others were injured...

As Belgrade and Pristina trade accusations about the lack of progress in the investigation into Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, the slain Kosovo Serb politician’s allies say they’re being kept in the dark by both countries. Murdered Kosovo...

Macedonia and Greece on Monday said they had finally reached a framework for a possible solution to their long-standing dispute over Macedonia’s name, to which Greece objects. News of the much awaited breakthrough, whose details are...

The European Court for Human Rights has found Romania and Lithuania guilty of violating the European ban on torture for hosting secret CIA prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured. The European Court of Human Rights in...

Unresolved land disputes, property restitution claims and problems with registering new religious denominations are some of the faith-related problems that the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report, published by the US Department of State on Tuesday, noted in the...

In case of a final deal on the ‘name’ dispute with Greece, Macedonia plans to put it to a referendum in September or October, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday. Talks between Macedonia and Greece...