The Central Election Commission has again refused to accredit the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party for parliamentary elections, triggering harsh reactions from Western diplomats. Srpska Lista’s ...

Efforts to provide teachers and books in the Roma language culminated last year with the opening of a library of Roma-language books in Prizren – and interest in it has grown ever since. Arzu Cukici ...

The car parts industry has become crucial to the North Macedonia economy, but low wages are keeping some would-be workers away. Kosta Atanasov was on the verge of quitting his native North Macedonia ...

Varna's opposition mayor Blagomir Kotsev – whose arrest in July on corruption charges sparked angry demonstrations – has been released after supporters raised the hefty bail sum in hours. Varna mayor ...

As the country’s strongest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, is forced into opposition, some fear it may retaliate by stoking ethnic tensions and blocking institutions. For the first time ...

Catholic and Orthodox Church leaders call for end to religious divisions in Iznik, formerly Nicea, where the foundation of modern Christian doctrine was established. Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical ...

As the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, a new book showcases posters from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, explaining how graphic design was used for resistance, ...

A recent mass shooting at a school in Belgrade had a widespread impact online in the Balkans, sparking a series of copycat threats, misleading articles, fake video footage and insensitive reports in ...

Internal documents show Frontex and the European Commission are well aware of Bulgaria’s dire human rights record on its border with Turkey, but the EU’s executive arm had other priorities – expanding ...

Former communist countries in Southeast Europe face catastrophic depopulation, with far-reaching social and political consequences. Young people are leaving. Fertility rates have collapsed. Societies ...

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 ...

Both progressive Hungarian Jews and mainstream Jewish leaders are raising concerns about Trump’s appointment of Ben Landa to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary.