Southern Balkans

As Macedonia’s Special Prosecution, SJO, launches a criminal investigation into the heavily politicized and failed 2011 census – suspecting the country’s then leaders deliberately squandered millions of euros before scrapping it – the new head of...

A Kosovo court has found the former Pristina Grand Mosque Imam Shefqet Krasniqi not guilty of encouraging terrorist acts in his sermons and on social media Pristina’s Basic Court on Friday acquitted the former Imam of...

Kosovo’s parliament has ratified the long delayed border agreement with Montenegro, which both the EU and US have repeatedly pushed for. The agreement was ratified on Wednesday when 80 of the 120 MPs in parliament voted...

Sokol Morina had a long and sleepless night on March 24, 1999, the day that NATO began its campaign of air strikes against Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslav forces. It was the last time that he and his...

Just hours before the Kosovo Assembly is due to vote on the controversial border demarcation with Montenegro, the ruling coalition is struggling to put together enough votes to endorse the deal. The Kosovo Assembly is set...

They always knew there was something funny about the water. In Komletinci, a village in eastern Croatia a stone’s throw from the Serbian border, it gurgles from the tap with a whiff of ammonia. Its colour...

Last April, eight months before the value of Bitcoin peaked, Ana Popovic finally did what a friend of hers had been urging her to do for months: invest in Bitcoins. For around $350, she bought 0.25...

Despite its often frigid political relations with Moscow, Montenegro hopes to attract more Russian tourists to the country this year. Montenegro’s tourism business is gearing up for the summer, expecting more Russian tourists than in previous...

Twenty years after Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari was killed in a gun battle, a feature film is to be made about his life – and it has already caused controversy in Serbia. Kosovo Albanian...

Senior US official Wess Mitchell confirmed America’s support for the establishment of a regular army in Kosovo during his visit to Serbia – which strongly opposes the idea. US Assistant Secretary of State for European and...