If the first round of the presidential election is an indicator of the outcome of the May 8 parliamentary contest, the right-wing VMRO DPMNE party seems poised to oust the pro-European Social ...

Esat Bicurri was a singing star in Kosovo, but 25 years ago, he was shot dead by Serbian forces and his body hidden in a mass ...

Balkan states Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia have tumbled down the latest press freedom rankings compiled ...

In a rare interview, Metropolitan Kyrillos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate challenged the validity of a document issued by the ...

Following the example of their Supreme Court colleagues, 17 of 39 judges of the Court of Appeal in Chisinau quit rather than come under the scrutiny of a vetting process. Members of the pre-vetting ...

Clashes broke out on May 1 when protesters tried to defy a ban on gatherings on Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square.

A year after a mass shooting at a Belgrade school left ten dead, Aidan White, head of the Ethical Journalism Network, says Serbian media made ethical blunders in rushing to publish sensationalist ...

Elsewhere, Ode to Joy as Czechia celebrates EU accession; official of Slovak Culture Ministry questions shape of Earth; and Polish farmers end border blockade. An opinion poll by Median published this ...

The Italian port city of Trieste, just across the Yugoslav border, was a popular shopping destination for people seeking branded Western goods – but the fall of socialist Yugoslavia means the ...

More than four years have passed since an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, was reported in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan. The first pandemic of the 21 st century would go on to ...

Unruly and aggressive religious celebrations are damaging ethnic harmony in the multi-ethnic region - and reminding some of ...