The opposition’s strong showing in two bellwether local polls – against stiff odds – suggest support for the ruling party is crumbling away.

Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic.

With Albania’s ruling Socialist Party a whisker away from a three-fifths supermajority in parliament, critics are worried about the ramifications for the country’s fragile democracy. The party ...

Polarising campaign topic The emails surfaced in the middle of Poland’s presidential election campaign. It is no coincidence; since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Lida Hujic, a popular youth presenter during the golden era of Radio Television Sarajevo in the late 1980s, recalls the rebellious past of a public broadcaster which today, as BHRT, faces an ...

As Donald Trump Jr tours South-East and Central Europe to promote his business – and partnerships with US companies – some Balkan politicians are using his visit to score points of their own.

The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt. Photo: N1. Using his extensive powers, Bosnia’s international overseer, the High Representative, Christian Schmidt, on ...

According to Amnesty International, Serbia’s BIA has developed its own spyware to track activists, a sophisticated surveillance tool called NoviSpy. Unlike globally recognised spyware such as ...

North Macedonia’s PM, Hristijan Mickoski [L] and head of the European Council, Charles Michel [R] in Brussels. Photo: govt.mk After meeting the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, and ...

In the Balkans, politics is never very far from history and history never far from the politics. In the case of the history of the Independent State of Croatia, NDH, and the Jasenovac ...