Ahead of a vote in parliament on Thursday, the ruling Socialists reject a prosecution request to support lifting the immunity of dismissed former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, allowing for ...

The battle over the election of a new president has laid bare a political culture in which procedural rules are being weaponised to bring constitutional processes to a halt. Kosovo’s political ...

Montenegro is finally showing signs it is serious about restoring the Ulcinj Saltworks, a crucial ‘buffet table’ for migratory birds that the European Union wants properly protected as it considers ...

The upcoming verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his co-accused will have enormous consequences for the defendants themselves, for the court, for Kosovo and for ...

Athens appeal court upholds guilty verdicts for members of prescribed extremist party, five-and-a-half years after the first-instance ruling. Ioannis Lagos, member of the leadership of Golden Dawn, at ...

New report says journalists’ safety is under ‘sustained pressure’ in Europe – with Turkey, Serbia and Bulgaria listed among the worst offenders. Turkish journalists’ protest. Photo: Journalists’ Union ...

Some Balkan countries are planning to evacuate stranded citizens from the conflict zone around Iran, others have already managed to fly people out - although some have only issued security warnings.

For decades, sewage from the Albanian capital has been discharged untreated into the waters of the Lana River in Tirana. Aleko Miho struggles to explain just how polluted Albania’s Lana River is. “It ...

Protesters rallied in Sarajevo for a fourth consecutive day over a tram accident in which one person was killed and four others were injured. High-school pupils took to the streets of Bosnia’s capital ...

Their chances of settling in the United States increasingly bleak, a growing number of Chinese nationals are travelling visa-free to Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina and crossing into the European ...

The shootings of six people connected to an environmental activist group and a ‘spiritual’ adventure-tour guide, with no surviving witnesses, have led to the case being dubbed ‘the Bulgarian Twin ...

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