In 2024, trade in goods between the EU and its six Western Balkans partners was worth over €83 billion – involving €48.8 ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Vuksanović observed that Vučić has been unable to form any coherent policy toward the second Trump administration. He added ...

But some European officials who have helped to oversee the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war fear the removal of ...

A fatal accident at a Chinese-built solar plant in Bosnia triggered investigations that exposed illegal labor, violated permits, and ultimately halted the project amid rising public resistance to ...

BELGRADE — Back in the late 1990s, a group of Serbian dissidents, independent journalists and the opposition fled Slobodan Milošević’s dictatorial regime to Hungary. In an open-air tavern under the ...

Whenever political instability looms in the Balkans, the habitual response is to call for more E.U. and U.S. engagement. Like many War on the Rocks authors before me, I too have been guilty of penning ...

When we talk about foreign fighters joining ISIS much of the focus is on Western Europe, but proportionally more come from the Balkans. NPR's Scott Simon talks with security analyst Adrian Schtuni.

Catherine Ashton served as EU high representative for foreign affairs; Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent and expert on the Balkans; Mark Medish served on the National Security Council in the ...

This transcript is from a CSIS event hosted on December 14, 2023. Watch the full video here. Kathleen McInnis: At the heart of the Balkans, Kosovo has long been a key area of interest to the ...

No one wants a Balkans arms race, even if it’s a “mini” one. Last May, when Croatia bought a dozen used Rafale fighter jets for $1.2 billion, the Associated Press described it as part of a “mini arms ...

My evening at a family-run distillery located atop Goč Mountain in central Serbia was shaping up to be a decadent affair with ample amounts of high-quality rakia, a potent fruit brandy that is ...