Southern Balkans

Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Leader Liviu Dragnea is under investigation by prosecutors in Brazil for allegedly using intermediaries to buy real estate and launder money in the South American country, according to federal prosecutor Carlos Wagner Barbosa Guimaraes....

The opposition accused the court and prosecution in Podgorica of letting the main witness in the high-profile Montenegro coup plot case, Sasa Sindjelic, leave for Serbia to avoid serving a prison sentence. Montenegro’s main opposition alliance,...

Serbian and Macedonian government officials will meet in Skopje to try and solve a trade dispute over imports of Serbian flour Serbian Trade Minister Rasim Ljajic and Macedonian Agriculture Minister Ljupco Nikolovski will meet in Skoplje...

Slobodan Tesic, who the US in December put on a blacklist of alleged human rights abusers and people involved in corrupt activities around the world, has hired lobbing company Sonoran Policy Group Inc in a bid...

The innocent sounding email reached an official of the Montenegrin Defence Ministry in early January 2017. Entitled: “NATO_secretary_meeting.doc”, it sounded like a communiqué from the Western alliance that Montenegro was soon to join. However, IT experts...

The Karadjordjevic family, descendants of Yugoslavia’s former royals, want Montenegro to return millions of euros’ worth of property including castles confiscated by the Communists after WWII. Descendants of the former Yugoslav royals want to be given...

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has taken statements from the President and from the speaker of parliament for the trial of ten suspected members of the ‘People’s Eye’ organisation, accused of drawing up a list of national ‘traitors’....

Twenty-seven years ago, in February 1991, Gentiana Sula was standing in a crowd of thousands of Albanians who toppled a statute of the country’s dictator Enver Hoxha in the central square of the capital Tirana. In the early...

Up to ten MPs from smaller ethnic Albanian parties could soon boost the government’s narrow majority in parliament, but settling their petty feuds so that they can all join his administration poses a challenge for Prime...

Croatian finance expert Fabris Perusko was appointed as the state’s new ‘extraordinary manager’ for debt-ridden food giant Agrokor after the previous crisis chief quit over alleged conflict of interest. The Croatian government announced on Tuesday that...