Southern Balkans

Most politicians’ wives in Bosnia and Herzegovina remain firmly in their husbands’ shadows, all but unknown to the general public. Not Sebija Izetbegovic, however. She finds herself in the media spotlight almost as much as –...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is this week meeting his counterparts from Turkey and Russia, as his intense diplomatic activity continues. Serbian’s president  is continuing his diplomatic offensive and meetings with world officials with a new round of...

Fadil Daja was 21 years old when he was sent to Spac prison after being convicted of treason. The young soldier escaped to Yugoslavia in 1975 and lived in a refugee camp in the Slovenian capital...

On April 17, the European Commission released its lengthy and detailed report on Kosovo for 2018. As a former international judge with the European Union Rule of Law Mission, EULEX, from 2011-13, I was particularly interested...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday said that he had refused to approve a set of justice bills that he said violate the rule of law and go against European standards. Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis said...

At the last May Parade in Belgrade in 1985, Marshal Tito, the main figure at all previous such events, had been dead for five years and the military was desperate for nothing to go wrong. Spring...

Workers at Romania’s biggest steel plant in Galati, a port on the Danube, are concerned following reports that its owner, ArcelorMittal, plans to sell it to meet EU anti-trust concerns. “People are worried and the atmosphere...

When militant Christian campaigner Jim Dowson was banned from Hungary in April 2017 for posing a “danger to national security”, he was able to protest his innocence – and even appeal for funds for his legal defence –...

Bosniaks held protests in several towns across the country to support Atif Dudakovic, former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, who was arrested last week on suspicion of war crimes. Several thousand Bosniaks gathered in...

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj tells El Pais that Kosovo will never recognise the independence of Catalonia – once again insisting that the cases of Kosovo and Catalonia have nothing in common. The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush...