The assassination of Oliver Ivanović, the leader of the Serbs of Kosovo, last week marked a major step backwards in the painfully slow road towards stability in the Balkans. Critically,... read more →
The Romanian Supreme Court has upheld a request by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) to issue an arrest warrant in absentia for the former mayor of Constanţa, Radu Mazare, after... read more →
A leading Serb politician from Kosovo, Oliver Ivanović, was shot dead on Tuesday morning, just one month before the 10th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. Local media... 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 →
Much of the debate surrounding how open Europe should be to migrants circles around fears that an influx of asylum seekers will mean a rise in crime. That assumption seemed... 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 →
An Israeli man who allegedly headed up an international organ trafficking operation has been arrested by police in Cyprus. Moshe Harel stands accused of leading the network, which is said... read more →
The European Commission has singled out Moldova and Ukraine as needing to do more to tackle crime and corruption if they want to continue to benefit from visa-free access to... read more →
Bulgaria’s President has rejected a Brussels-backed anti-corruption bill hours after the Baltic nation assumed the EU's six-month rotating presidency. Roumen Radev yesterday vetoed the proposed legislation, which was designed to... 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 →
