Southern Balkans

Austrian construction company Strabag AG filed a complaint against a bid made by the Chinese Road and Bridge Corporation to construct Croatia’s strategically important Peljesac Bridge. Austrian construction company Strabag AG filed a complaint on Monday...

After becoming the first Albanian woman to reach the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, Kosovo’s Uta Ibrahimi is planning to climb all 14 peaks in the Himalayas. After scaling the two...

Media have been speculating about a series of alternatives for a new name for Macedonia suggested by the UN negotiator leading talks aimed at resolving the country’s longstanding dispute with Greece. Amid silence from officials in...

Albania’s ruling Socialist Party is being criticised for its attempts to make issuing arrest warrants for MPs facing criminal charges much harder. Albania’s ruling Socialist Party has been criticised over a proposal that would oblige the...

The European Greens co-president Ska Keller tells BIRN of her grave concerns for the future of the UNESCO-protected Pirin National Park, after Bulgaria’s government approved plans to expand the ski resort there. The Green/EFA party, the...

The visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to Kosovo on Saturday, following the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, is widely seen by experts in Kosovo as a move by Belgrade to score some political...

Montenegro will hold presidential elections on April 15, after the speaker of parliament officially called the elections on Friday. “I believe that elections will be held in a positive and democratic atmosphere and that we, all...

Oliver Ivanovic, who was shot dead in front of his office in Mitrovica on Tuesday, had several times said he and his family had received threats, and had asked Kosovo, Serbia and others for help –...

Selim Demolli gripped the table with his hands, and his lip trembled with anger as he spoke. The previous day he had talked to an imam about his son, who was killed three years ago in...

A musical staged by a Serb theatre ensemble from Kosovo about the 1999 war and Serb-Albanian relations will feature late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as the “tragic protagonist”. The Serb National Theatre from Pristina said it...