Balkan News

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s speech in Kosovo appeared to call for peace and reconciliation, but his coded nationalist rhetoric and praise for Slobodan Milosevic showed that the dream of a ‘Greater Serbia’ lives on.

A new book about Queen Elizabeth’s diplomacy recounts her desperate attempts to avoid having to meet Nicolae Ceausescu on his infamous state visit to London in 1978.

While Moldova's authorities have given only vague information about Sunday's car accident involving President Igor Dodon, some of his fellow Socialists insist someone was trying to kill him.

Few of the top politicians campaigning in Bosnia's general election campaign have made much attempt to mobilise supporters on either Facebook and Twitter.

A minister’s vendetta against a 76-year-old man has turned into a fiasco for Moldova’s authorities after the ECHR ruled in his favour. 

On his two-day visit to Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied the two countries were near a solution to their dispute, and was prevented from visiting a Serb-majority village.

The upcoming general elections are likely to deliver an indecisive result in several key races – although the ruling bloc in Bosnia’s mainly Serb entity appears to be coasting towards victory.  

During her visit to Macedonia on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced strong support for Macedonia’s efforts to ensure a successful referendum on the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece.

Kosovo Albanians have blocked roads and burned tires on the announced route of the Serbian President, as he travels to visit Serbia’s former province.

The case of Georgi Markov, the anti-Communist Bulgarian dissident poisoned in London in 1978 by a secret service operative – in a operation reminiscent of the Skripal case – still divides Bulgaria after all these years.

After Serbia's President cancelled his planned meeting with his Kosovo counterpart, the EU is planning a new meeting between the two leaders amid a sudden worsening of relations.

Although it had been announced that the Serbian and Kosovo presidents would meet on Friday to continue their EU-led dialogue, Serbia's leader has now called off the meeting – while his visit to Kosovo this weekend is also in doubt.

The month-long general election campaign has officially started in Bosnia, ahead of polling day in October.

Encouraging a ‘yes’ vote in the referendum later month, NATO chief warns Macedonians not to imagine they can join the Atlantic alliance without an agreement with Greece.

The government says it will summon intelligence chiefs for a grilling before parliament, as concern grows over the sudden detention and expulsion of a number of Turkish teachers.

Stepping out of the shadow of history is a constant challenge in the Balkans, whether in the realm of politics or the economy, but just now the possibility of leaping into the future seems close to hand at least in some quarters. 

Montenegrin on Thursday announced that it will take in up to five people from a ship full of migrants that was stranded off the coast of Italy for days.

With undemocratic powers hustling for influence in the Western Balkans, the region needs EU and US commitment – but Brussels and Washington seem reluctant to offer it wholeheartedly.

Daniel Serwer says territorial exchange is ‘an idea whose time should not come’ – while a Serbian expert has warned Kosovo not to expect Serbia to surrender any land.

The long road to Europe is fraught with danger for unaccompanied boys in search of work to feed the families they left behind.