Southern Balkans

In closing statements at the high-profile trial in Kosovo, the defence insisted that the kidney transplants at the Medicus clinic had no connection to people-trafficking as the indictment claims. In its closing statements on Tuesday, the...

One of the most popular travel guides, Lonely Planet, has included Albania and Kosovo on its list of the ten best holiday destinations in Europe for 2018. Lonely Planet’s list of ten “essential destinations in Europe this year” includes Kosovo...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opulent election rally in Sarajevo on Sunday was a carefully stage-managed performance, designed to benefit both Erdogan and his host, the Bosniak member of Bosnia’s tripartite state presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic. For Erdogan, still...

A Croatian court has ordered the release from detention of a relative of six-year-old Afghan refugee girl Madina Hosseini, who was killed in November by a passing train at the border with Serbia. The Administrative Court...

Macedonia’s prime minister is to submit his proposed government reshuffle to parliament today in a bid to increase his slim majority by adding two small ethnic Albanian parties to his ruling coalition. The reshuffle proposed by...

Skopje’s Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of soliciting bribes from a businessman in his home town of Strumica – a case in which Zaev claimed he was politically framed by the previous...

The latest package for solving the long-standing Macedonia-Greece ‘name’ dispute, involving the composite name ‘Republic of Ilinden Macedonia’, should be given a chance, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister said. Macedonia and Greece need to show leadership over the...

The Turkish embassy in Sarajevo said the possible reason why BIRN and other journalists were not accredited for the Turkish president’s showpiece Bosnian campaign event was that the media area was too small. The Turkish embassy...

Poland has grudgingly paid damages, Lithuania is investigating and Macedonia has apologised. Even Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA said this month that it should never happen again. Yet Romania maintains a stubborn silence over its own...

Bosnian citizen Emin Hodzic, who has already served a sentence for fighting in Syria, was jailed for two years for possessing automatic rifles, hand grenades and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The Municipal Court in Sarajevo found...