Months after US sanctions took effect on Serbian Oil Industry, NIS, as one of Gazprom Neft’s subsidiaries, Hungary’s MOL says it will buy the majority of shares in the company. The NIS company logo is ...

Election Commission orders recount at all polling stations in the country after limited recount in ten municipalities reveals significant manipulation of votes cast. Illustration: BIRN/Denis Sllovinja ...

Rights organisations hail acquittal of 24 humanitarian workers who took part in migrant rescue operations in Greece, slating the trial as ‘an attempt to criminalise solidarity and demonise ...

Far-right demonstrators in Bucharest shouted slogans against a law that has tightened the penalties on supporters of fascist and racist movements – even though its implementation has been patchy. Riot ...

After the US paused visa processing for 75 countries, including Albania, the opposition in Tirana has accused the government of getting the country put on Trump's "blacklist". Albanian Minister for ...

As a young man in the 1990s, Vladan Lausevic saw his beloved football club in the town of Teslic ripped apart by inter-ethnic conflict, leading him on a path of discovery about the power of politics ...

The US president’s combative demands to take over Greenland have spooked EU diplomats and NATO leaders this month. In Kosovo meanwhile, Vetevendosje’s victory means the European bloc will have to get ...

Bulgarians are bracing for the eight parliamentary election since 2021 and a vote for a new president, amid warnings that Gen Z anger is at boiling point. Bulgaria began 2026 with an uneasy sense of ...

Much work remains to be done in concluding the protracted war crimes and crimes against humanity case against four veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA – Hashim Thaci, Kadri Vesili, Rexhep ...

Albania’s government is poised to waive business tax debts more than a decade old, as part of what it says is a reset in relations between the tax authorities and businesses. Critics say it is unfair ...

Montenegro hopes to finish EU negotiations by the end of 2026 and join the bloc two years later, but it must do more than just tick boxes, experts warn. Montenegro has set itself a deadline of ...

New draft law aims to drastically tighten restrictions on smoking, and on advertising nicotine products, amid stubbornly high consumption rates. A woman smokes a cigarette in Skopje. Photo: EPA/GEORGI ...