In the world of garbage treatment in Albania, one man’s name keeps cropping up. His connections cross the country’s bitter political divide. On a rainy afternoon in July 2017, Albania’s then finance ...

Heavy rains were blamed for the deaths of two people in Albania, three in Montenegro and a two-year-old boy in Serbia – while roads were blocked and some schools in Serbia and Albania were closed.

Albania and Kosovo applauded the Trump administration’s military operation against Venezuela's regime and the ousting of Nicolas Maduro, while other states in the region initially remained silent or ...

In Serbia, 2025 was the year when protesting students rejected collaboration with the country’s civil society NGOs - but at what cost? Twenty-one-year-old Jovana Pongracic is a third-year student of ...

People across Serbia have lost their jobs after supporting student-led protests against the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, or for refusing to attend government-backed counter-rallies. For 16 years, ...

Tirana’s EU accession process is running in top gear – but worryingly, there’s no sign this is being matched with a democratic deepening at home. In 2025, Albania moved through the EU accession ...

Come January, Czech schools across the country will have to provide free menstrual products to their pupils. A welcome move, activists say, who urge an even more systemic approach to tackling period ...

Nadia and the Securitate, by Romanian historian Stejarel Olaru, is a meticulous and ballyhoo-free reconstruction of the ordeal the teenager experienced at home while awards and accolades poured in ...

Armed drones are becoming a favoured means for Balkan countries to boost their military muscle and regional clout – but even though they are unlikely to trigger a war, their unchecked spread brings ...

Bulgaria has just joined the Eurozone, but amidst a deep political crisis and substantial domestic opposition to the European single currency, not everyone was celebrating.

Dramatic situation reported in several towns, while some locals complain of being abandoned.

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...