Balkan News

A court in Montenegro found investigative reporter Jovo Martinovic guilty on drug-smuggling charges.

Journalists and politicians need to take a fresh look at the town that fell in 1991, one that addresses the issues of today, not only the war of the past, according to a panel discussion.

Edi Rama hits out at Voice of America after an investigation into alleged political hiring in the prison system, unbowed by criticism of his treatment of the media.

Civil society groups in Serbia say that the process of selecting a new Information Commissioner, a post crucial for obtaining information of public importance, is not nearly as transparent as it should be.

The Macedonian government’s political manoeuvres in applying the deal with Greece have eroded people’s faith in democracy – and it must act fast to restore it.

Veterans of protests past compare today’s anti-government demonstrations in Belgrade with those against late strongman Slobodan Milosevic two decades ago.

Twenty years after Serbian forces killed 44 people in the small Kosovo village of Reçak/Racak, the survivors still await justice – while historians recall a turning point in a grim war.

A year after the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, a slew of gun and bomb attacks in Kosovo’s lawless north remain unsolved.

Following a dispute with President Ilir Meta over the new Foreign Minister, Prime Minister Edi Rama on Monday said he would temporarily take over the job himself.

 The Pristina Basic Court has detained a suspect who used social networks to share a picture containing threatening messages about the Prime Minister with an ISIS flag in the background.

Macedonia remains optimistic that recent political turbulence in Greece sparked by a minister's resignation will not hold up approval of the historic 'name' agreement in parliament in Athens.

The breakaway region of Transnistria is to open a diplomatic office once again in Moscow, adding to worries in Moldova about the separatist regime's ambitions.

An ad hoc court in The Hague begins interviewing a number of senior former guerrilla fighters in a bid to bring to justice those behind crimes allegedly committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army. The process has the potential to send shockwaves through Kosovo’s young democracy.

The people of Skopje once shunned their derelict and embarrassing zoo – but after undergoing a makeover, it is attracting record-breaking numbers of visits once again.

Belgrade would be wrong to go slow on a Kosovo solution because it expects to face a more sympathetic Europe after the May elections.

Bosnia starts 2019 with a major government crisis, political tensions and blocked reforms – which will further slow the country’s path towards EU membership.

The expulsion of two Iranian diplomats by Albania won PM Edi Rama personal praise from Donald Trump, whose campaign to become president of the US was once described by the Albanian leader as “frightening”.

Thousands of protesters braved freezing temperatures in the Serbian capital on Saturday for the latest in a series of rallies against what they see as the government's authoritarian policies.

Macedonia’s parliament has passed all four constitutional amendments to allow the country's name to be changed - as required under the historic agreement with Greece.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders Rrustem Mustafa and Sami Lushtaku will travel to The Hague over the weekend to be questioned by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, which is probing wartime and post-war crimes.