Southern Balkans

Meeting at the Sofia summit, the Macedonian and Greek Prime Ministers said they have narrowed down one possible solution for the long-standing bilateral name dispute, which they will now take back to their countries for consideration....

The village of Letnica, in the mountains 70 kilometres east of Pristina, near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia, is best known for its whitewashed Catholic church. This is the church where, in 1928, Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu –...

Prime Minister Edi Rama has accused the opposition of falsifying an alleged conversation, which seemed to suggest the Interior Minister’s brother had close ties to criminals. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has responded to the week-long...

Media organisations and activists signed a joint declaration calling for the EU to take into account the media freedom situation in member states and candidate countries while awarding funds. Media organisations, publishers, NGOs and representatives of...

Bosnian politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic was acquitted of obstructing justice by ordering witness-tampering in the trial of drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo. The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the...

Serbia, Albania, Romania and Macedonia were among just 32 countries represented at the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, held against a backdrop of violence as dozens of people died when Israeli...

Hate speech and racist rhetoric has been increasing in Croatia, mainly targeting Serbs, LGBT people and Roma, warned the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. A report published on Tuesday by the Council...

Plans by Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party to follow the US President Donald Trump’s lead on Israel and move Romania’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem have sparked turmoil in Romania – and concern in the...

Connectivity among the Western Balkan countries will be the main topic of the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia on May 17, according to the Montenegrin government’s platform, which BIRN has seen. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic...

“I have not decided yet, but I’m thinking about leaving the army,” a young professional soldier in Bosnia’s Armed Forces told BIRN. Declining to give his name, he complained about the tiny salary, poor conditions in...