Southern Balkans

The EU has drafted business safeguards to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, including prohibiting firms from complying with US sanctions and sending money to Iran’s central bank. Experts doubt such efforts will be enough. The European...

Wary of the misbehaviour that plagues a number of resorts in Greece and Spain, Croatia’s seaside towns are laying down the law on foreign visitors whose behaviour annoys the locals. In an introductory article for Visit...

Romania is set to become the first country to buy Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defence system, after signing a deal on Thursday. Romania is the first country to buy Israel’s Iron Dome short-range rocket interception system...

A brass sculpture portraying American writer and heiress Nancy Cunard made by Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi sold for 71 million dollars at Christie’s auction house. A bronze portrait of American heiress and political activist Nancy Cunard sculpted...

When the time came for Kosovo doctor Lutfi Dervishi and his son Arban to be imprisoned in 2016 for one of the Balkans’ most gruesome post-war crimes, the pair had vanished. BIRN can reveal that Kosovo...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’schoice of Sarajevo to rally diaspora supporters on May 20 speaks of how unwelcome he has become in some Western capitals – and of the close ties he has cultivated in the...

A Pristina court on Friday jailed eight Kosovars for having planned a terrorist attack on the Israeli football team when they were playing in Elbasan, Albania. The Pristina Basic Court has jailed eight Kosovo citizens who...

The EU-Western Balkans summit ended with pledges of European support for the region’s infrastructure and much talk of ‘connectivity’ – but words like ‘integration’ and ‘enlargement’ were notably absent from the declaration. Much work is to...

An Albanian business organization has sent on 11 May an open letter to national leaders, including Prime Minister Edi Rama and the Central Bank governor, Gent Sejko, urging them to stop the strengthening of the national...

Worried by a surge in illegal migration, Bosnia is to deploy more police to the border to prevent a growth in the migrant flow, the country’s Prime Minister announced. Denis Zvizdic, the chair of Bosnia’s Council...