Work visas provide little protection for migrant workers in Romania; many end up moving on or returning home to escape exploitation. As a teenager, Rafi* dreamed of studying and starting a business in ...

Allegations that a former presidential adviser threatened a government lawyer with the release of private sexually explicit material have put the spotlight on so-called ’revenge porn‘ and the use of ...

Keen to show loyalty to the US president, some Balkan states signed up to Donald Trump’s contentious ‘Board of Peace’. Others, meanwhile, are looking to the US for new business partnerships instead of ...

Likely sale of the foreign assets of the US-sanctioned Russian oil giant will have important consequences for fuel supplies in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. The central office of Russian oil company ...

Expecting the unexpected seems to be the name of the game in both global politics and the domestic politics of the region, as 2026 kicks off with a few unexpected twists. US President Donald Trump ...

As they veer from the path of European Union integration, governments in Georgia and Serbia have both wielded invasive surveillance technology against pro-democracy protesters. Almost every evening ...

Ron Haviv photographed all the former Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, from Slovenia to Kosovo, capturing the devastating impact of the conflicts on ordinary people. This post is also available in this ...

Moscow would like its partner Aleksandar Vucic’s administration to remain in place – but as events in Venezuela and Syria have shown, its response to unwelcome upheavals is usually pragmatic. Donald ...

Freight operators from Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia block goods traffic at border crossings, protesting over new EU EES rules that limit their stay in the Schengen area to 90 days ...

An exhibition of declassified documents from the much-feared Sigurimi, Albania’s Communist-era secret police force, showed how thousands of people in the capital Tirana were spied upon and persecuted.

More than two years since the deal was made, EU Special Representative announces that Serbia and Kosovo's negotiators have finally agreed to form a joint commission to help find more missing persons ...

Critics accused Edi Rama of overlooking Palestinian suffering during his recent visit to Israel. But both he and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, see advantages in a closer relationship.