Southern Balkans

A Kosovo artist was prevented from bringing into Serbia photographs showing Kosovo Liberation Army symbols – images that were destined for an exhibition in Belgrade aimed at promoting better Kosovo-Serbia relations. Kosovo artist Eliza Hoxha was prevented from...

After blocking reform of the country’s broken election law, Bosnian politicians’ clashes and zero-sum games – which have continued to intensify as October’s general elections draw closer – now start threatening the country’s security and financial...

Britain’s Prince Charles will be meeting a number of officials on his latest trip to a Balkan country the UK government eyes with approval. Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was due on Wednesday to...

More than 2.3 million Romanians and 533,000 Bulgarians aged between 20 and 64 were living in another European country last year, according to a report by the EU statistics agency. A fifth of Romanians, a sixth of...

After the Bulgarian President’s bridge-building trip to Russia, energy issues are likely to be the main topic at the Prime Minister’s follow-up meeting with Vladimir Putin. After President Rumen Radev paved the way towards improved Bulgarian-Russian relations last week,...

At midnight on June 19, 1999, Nusret Ajdezi was woken up by a loud knocking on his door. Four armed people entered his home in a central Pristina neighbourhood and said that he and his family...

Canadian ex-soldiers who took part in peacekeeping missions in the Balkans in the 1990s are returning for a ‘Battlefield Bike Ride’ tour from Bosnia to Croatia, honouring foreign troops who served there. Wounded Warriors Canada will...

At the recent EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, the EU again failed to reassure the Western Balkan states which – instead of the hoped-for “enlargement summit” – got only a “connectivity agenda” and controversial and conflicting...

The 45th anniversary of a famous rebellion that shook Albania’s dictatorial regime was commemorated last week at Spac, a former Communist prison in the north of the country. On May 21, 1973, a group of political...

Montenegro’s ruling Democratic Party of Socialists won in most municipalities in local elections on Sunday, amid numerous irregularities and reports of violent incidents. The ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, party won most votes in ten...