Southern Balkans

Zagreb’s famous Christmas Market, “Advent in Zagreb”, officially opened on Saturday night with the ceremonial lighting of the first Advent candle by President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic on the city’s Ban Jelacic Square....

At a UN Security Council session called by Belgrade, Kosovo’s president defended Pristina’s decision to transform its security force into an army, while his Serbian counterpart claimed it will jeopardise peace. Kosovo and Serbia’s presidents clashed...

After three Serbs, one of them a four-year-old child, were murdered in a village near the eastern Kosovo town of Gjilan/Gnjilane in May 2000, the recently-established United Nations mission in Kosovo intervened in the work of...

Two proposals to ‘discipline’ online media in Albania were criticized on Monday as potentially anti-constitutional and as likely to have a chilling effect on freedom of expression The office of Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, has...

On the eve of a historic vote on transforming the current Kosovo Security Force into a body with army-like attributes, experts say it is only the beginning of a long process. Kosovo’s parliament will vote on...

“The gunpowder gets under your skin. The adrenalin is excellent, full of uncertainty, like sex in the wild,” says Stevan Milosevic, a Serb fighting for pro-Russian forces in the disputed region of Donbass in eastern Ukraine....

Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, repeatedly called for “dialogue” with rebellious students protesting against tuition fees on Sunday and Monday but was rebuffed – as the number of those present at the gates of the Ministry...

Egypt’s No. 1 brand of cigarette, Cleopatra, was born in 1961 when Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser asked for a local version of the smuggled American Kent brand he liked to smoke. Created by the century-old...

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has told NATO’s chief that Kosovo remains committed to establishing a regular army, despite warnings from NATO that the move is ill-timed and risky. Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj told the...

The group that coordinated last year’s mob attack on Macedonia’s parliament was stationed on the eighth floor of the VMRO DPMNE party’s headquarters, a trial heard on Thursday. A key defendant in the trial of those...