Balkans

After the establishment of Zoran Zaev’s (SDSM) Government in 2017 the Republic of North Macedonia managed to achieve historic successes. In addition to the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighbourliness and Cooperation with the Republic of. Bulgaria, the law on improvement of the use of languages of other ethnic …

Numerous citizens who protested in front of the Ministry of Education after the tragedy in vladislav ribnikar elementary school demanded the resignation of Minister Branko Ruzic. The same demand was made by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, some trade unions, the opposition. President Aleksandar Vucic and Minister Ivica Dacic …

Mirroring the demographic decline of the entire country, a massive and still-deepening population drop in the last 30 years will likely see Glamoc, a picturesque town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, empty completely. Squeezed between pastures and hills, and circled by green belts of forest, Glamoc sits in a lonesome mountainous …

Without the assistance of local actors, Russian influence in the Western Balkans would disappear overnight. But the opposite is also true. As long as local politicians can capitalize on invoking Moscow’s long shadow, Russia will remain a salient part of the Balkan landscape. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 …

Instead of each subsequent meeting of the highest officials of Serbia and Kosovo being more and more simple and distracted from the danger that ordinary people, citizens of Kosovo, currently of Serbian nationality, are safer and removed from the danger to life and bare existence, despite the mutual consent to …

Regarding the initiative to open the main bridge on the Ibar connecting the municipalities of North and South Mitrovica, KFOR says that this issue must be resolved through political dialogue. “The reopening of the bridge is an issue that must be resolved through political dialogue. The NATO mission, KFOR, continues …

The new head of the EULEX mission in Kosovo and Metohija is Carabinieri Major General Giovanni Pietro Barbano, who in his rich career already had experience with the Balkan countries. Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, was the first to announce that Italy would take over the EU mission. …

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said ahead of the new round of dialogue on the normalization of relations with Serbia that he will not allow the creation of some form of Republika Srpska in the north of Kosovo, Croatian news agency Hina reported today. At the meeting between Kurti and …

They’ve been accused of dismembering enemies with chainsaws, assassinating senior government officials, and trading on ties with intelligence agencies. They’ve smuggled cocaine — tons and tons of it — across the world and now feed a sizable share of Europe’s drug habit. Yet few outsides of law enforcement have heard …

Twenty-four years after NATO air strikes killed six people, including three children, in the Montenegrin village of Murino, the victims’ families have received no compensation and say consecutive governments have done nothing to help them. When the first bomb exploded on April 30, 1999 at a bridge near near the …