Balkan News

An iconic pyramid building constructed 30 years ago to house a museum celebrating Communist leader Enver Hoxha has fallen into disrepair, but plans are under way to transform it into a digital technology hub.

The charming hilltop village of Vuno in southern Albania, in the municipality of Himare, overlooking the Ionian Sea, is attracting more and more tourists during the summer, seeking a glimpse of life in times past.

The Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee has called on Serbia to stop its police from habitually using violence to force suspects to confess to crimes.

Thousands of Romanians took to the streets again on Wednesday night to protest recently revised criminal codes that critics say are a backward step in the fight against corruption. 

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Belgrade had not 'congratulated' Macedonia or Greece over their historic agreement as there was 'nothing to congratulate' as yet.

Former Serbian security service official Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court that a journalist who testified that the service controlled Serbian paramilitaries in the Croatian and Bosnian wars was not credible.

Politicians on both sides of the political fence expressed dismay on Wednesday after a court invalidated the result of the June 3 election for the post of Mayor of Chisinau. 

Macedonia's landmark agreement with Greece over its name has passed its first hurdle, after the country's parliament ratified the deal on Wednesday.

A small boat carrying ten migrants who were intending to illegally cross the Drina River from Serbia and crossing into Bosnia capsized on Wednesday morning.

Older people in Kosovo’s capital Pristina still remember why a landmark building was given the nickname of Yugoslav singing star Lepa Brena, but post-war changes mean the younger generation know little about her.

The future of Croatia Airlines hangs in the balance as the government seeks a new strategic partner, finances remain fragile – while unions demand more respect for workers’ rights.

In the first of a two-part series, BIRN reports on how Dinko Sakic, the last living commander of Croatia’s World War II concentration camp Jasenovac, was tracked down in Argentina and extradited 20 years ago.

Although not an EU member state, Montenegro wants a status agreement with the EU border control agency Frontex, to held curb migration, as the issue climbs again up the agenda.

Balkan watchers say Serbia and Kosovo will be under more pressure to resolve their dispute now that Greece and Macedonia have terminated their own decades-long disagreement.

Macedonian and Greek ministers on Sunday signed a landmark agreement aimed at finally resolving their decades-long dispute - which Macedonia's PM said had 'turned an enemy into a friend'.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, who went missing earlier this week, has been found "alive and well", and appeared not to have been kidnapped.

Media in Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria are highly diverse but suffer from polarisation, financial dependence on oligarchs and and high levels of public mistrust, a survey by the Reuters Institute says.

Many members of the ruling Social Democratic Party are itching to suspend Romania's President over his refusal to fire the country's anti-graft chief prosecutor – but some advise caution.

Former Serbian reservist Darko Tasic is accused of robbery and destruction of property in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusa in March 1999, and of burning victims’ bodies and throwing them in a river.

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Dinamo Zagreb, who was convicted of fraud by a Croatian court, has refused to extradite himself voluntarily from Bosnia.