A secret spy exchange between Russia, Moldova, Poland, Romania and the US shows Moldova has finally joined the ‘select club’ of European intelligence services. A quiet but important event last week ...

Controversial US rapper also known as Ye – who has been banned from the UK and Australia – will hold a concert in Tirana on July 11, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Facebook. Kanye West at the ...

In a world that increasingly finds itself turned upside down, our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week tries to make sense of the past, present and future. Rumen Radev speaks during ...

For the rest of that decade, it was the local League of Communists that organised commemorative events at the site. Then, in 1991, as Bosnia teetered on the brink of war, the 50th anniversary of the ...

For the first time in years, the governing Socialist Party is being savaged from within as Elisa Spiropali – a once close ally of Prime Minister Edi Rama – attacks his ‘heartless machine’. Elisa ...

A young Albanian woman’s return from a camp for Islamic State supporters has delighted her family – but officials warn that the repatriation process for others won’t be easy, particularly if they hold ...

Former prime minister warns of democratic decline, criticises the rightward shift of her former party, the HDZ, and reflects on Croatia’s successful path to the EU. Interviewing Jadranka Kosor, ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. Our Premium Service gives you full access to all content published on ...

If the European Commission decides to follow the parliament’s recommendation, it could start a process that both Hungary and Poland went through when they were governed by anti-EU, populist ...

Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe bestows its top 'award' on Croatian judge Ivan Markovic for issuing over 20 lawsuits against journalists – the third 'winner' from Croatia in five years. Hrvoje ...

The current Law on Religious Freedom, adopted the year before Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, provides no mechanism for the legal recognition of a religious community, but it does ...