The news came as little surprise. After two years of retirement, Milo Djukanovic, the charismatic authoritarian leader - long suspected of corruption - is making his comeback in Montenegrin politics.... read more →
Kosovo’s celebrations last month for the tenth anniversary of its independence peaked with a free concert headlined by the popular British singer Rita Ora, who was born in Kosovo. In... read more →
In the latest of a series of hammer blows to the Latvian banking industry the European Central Bank (ECB) has declared that Latvia's ABLV Bank is on the verge of... read more →
Any national independence movement must have two objectives, the first one, obviously, is to achieve independence, the second is to build a secure, prosperous and well-functioning state afterwards. Kosovo, Europe’s... read more →
George Soros, the 87-year-old billionaire has lately become a hate figure on the right for his perceived plan to “flood the EU with migrants”. A Jewish financier who stands for... read more →
On January 1, Bulgaria, the poorest country in the European Union, took over the rotating presidency of the bloc for the first time, a position it will occupy until the... read more →
The growth of Albanian drug trafficking and the proliferation of cannabis production in the country has earned Albania the nickname the “Columbia of Europe”. Italian authorities have found links between... read more →
In his annual speech on "The State of the European Union", Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for further enlargement of the European Union in the Balkans. This would see countries... read more →
Albania is both a country of origin and a transit country for the trafficking of men, women, and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. Women who... read more →
Despite recent improvements, the battle against corruption in Albania remains one of its most difficult challenges and biggest hurdles to European Union membership. In 2012 Transparency International ranked Albania as... read more →
