Southern Balkans

The Kosovo government’s new commission on the border deal with Montenegro has attacked the agreement, saying it endorsed a border that did not follow Kosovo’s previous border, when it was a province of Yugoslavia. Kosovo’s government...

After three years of stalemate, Skopje and Athens are rebooting UN-sponsored talks on their dispute over Macedonia’s name, which has been holding up the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration process. The fresh round of talks in Brussels on...

Written by Mariya Cheresheva Maria Dimitrova, an editor-in-chief of Zovnews, a local newspaper in Vratza, northwest of Bulgaria, was attending a family gathering at the end of October when she started receiving threats over the phone and on Facebook....

A Croatian police inspector told the retrial of Branimir Glavas that he overheard a conversation implying that the 1990s general was wrongly accused of war crimes against Serbs. Police inspector Zeljko Mazar on Friday told the...

A Serbian journalist Marija Antic has said she received death and rape threats after grilling a far-right French activist Arnaud Gouillon about his views and activism. “The job of a journalist is to try to come to the...

Weapons, slaughtering of lambs to “find arteries”, and beatings of members who wanted to leave the organization are some of the terrifying details an ex-member code-named “Witness E” of the far-right Greek party Golden Dawn, told the court during a hearing....

The United Nations is soon to decide whether to give Neapolitan pizza makers World heritage status. It’s one of the candidates to join the list of intangible heritage created by UNESCO, but we’re not talking about...

It is believed Donald Trump will announce the US recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a first step towards moving the country’s embassy there. The move is likely to inflame resentment and instability in the region, as...

Virtual currency Bitcoin has soared to a new record high, more than doubling in value since the beginning of October. The rise is partly due to the prospect of the cryptocurrency crossing over into the financial mainstream. Trading...

Hungary finds itself in an ideological battle with Brussels and several EU states. Part of the problem lies with the Hungarian government’s refusal to accept EU migrant quotas. In 2015 Hungary erected a barrier topped with...