Balkan News

Officials are crowing about the latest GDP figures – but experts say more investment and exports and a better business environment are needed, if recovery is to be maintained.

Programmers will gather in Sofia in June for the first Balkan Hackathon, aimed at developing digital solutions and software prototypes to boost progress in the region.

Employees at Serbia's landmark Zastava Arms company have called a strike, demanding that the state exempts their company from recently-adopted legislation aimed at privatisating the arms industry.

Turkey is willing to provide three billion euros to build a Sarajevo-Belgrade highway, but even though details of the deal are not yet known, Bosnian Serb officials strongly oppose it.

A Croatian court has ordered the release from detention of a relative of six-year-old Afghan refugee girl Madina Hosseini, who was killed in November by a passing train at the border with Serbia.

An ex-member of the Red Berets unit testified that former Serbian security service official Franko Simatovic, who is on trial in The Hague, was its commander-in-chief in 1995 when it allegedly committed crimes.

Macedonia's prime minister is to submit his proposed government reshuffle to parliament today in a bid to increase his slim majority by adding two small ethnic Albanian parties to his ruling coalition.

One of the most popular travel guides, Lonely Planet, has included Albania and Kosovo on its list of the ten best holiday destinations in Europe for 2018.

Romania’s autonomy-seeking Szekely Land area is sending its ‘national’ football team to compete in a tournament for unrecognised states and secessionist regions in London.

For all his honeyed words, President Erdogan is more of a liability than a useful ally to country whose best chance of survival lies in NATO and the EU.

Serbia's ruling party has promised a 'spring cleaning' of its ranks – but most leading officials, despite their controversies, look likely to stay in place, or even be promoted.

From self-proclaimed scourge of drug barons to accused collaborator, the dramatic fall of Saimir Tahiri has big implications.

Rumen Radev's meeting on Tuesday in Sochi with Russia's President is expected to focus on a major new energy project connecting the two countries.

The Serbian National Council, which represents the Serb minority in Croatia, recorded a rise last year in the number of threats, hate speech and violence directed against Serbs in the country.

Bosnian citizen Emin Hodzic, who has already served a sentence for fighting in Syria, was jailed for two years for possessing automatic rifles, hand grenades and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The retrial of Miroslav Jovic, a member of rebel Croatian Serb forces accused of killing one Croat civilian and wounding another during wartime in 1991, started at Zagreb county court.

Skopje’s Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of soliciting bribes from a businessman in his home town of Strumica – a case in which Zaev claimed he was politically framed by the previous government.

The Turkish embassy in Sarajevo said the possible reason why BIRN and other journalists were not accredited for the Turkish president’s showpiece Bosnian campaign event was that the media area was too small.

The latest package for solving the long-standing Macedonia-Greece 'name' dispute, involving the composite name 'Republic of Ilinden Macedonia', should be given a chance, Macedonia's Foreign Minister said.

A pro-Russian and a pro-European candidate will compete in a second-round run-off for the Chisinau mayoralty after municipal polls failed to deliver an outright victor.