Balkans

How Biden can stabilise the Balkans

Fast-tracking Balkan NATO enlargement would help the US anchor a slipping Bosnia and Kosovo.

Is it time to redraw borders in the Balkans?

A new proposal to redraw borders in the Balkans is causing a heated discussion with some believing it may be just what the region needs.

Serbia, in a bid for regional influence, vaccinates Balkan populations

Over the last week Serbia has thrown its doors open to regional populations in a bid to garner goodwill.

The four stages of Bosnian genocide denial

Genocide denial has comfortably situated itself in mainstream discourse after a systematic effort to minimise the crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s.

Strong earthquake rocks Larissa in central Greece

Strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits central Greece, prompting residents in the city of Larissa to rush into the streets, with shocks felt as far away as neighbouring Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro.

UK to reopen in stages after curbing South African variant – latest updates

Coronavirus has killed more than 2.47 million people and infected over 111.6 million globally. Here are virus-related developments for February 21:

Kosovo’s ‘peaceful political revolution’ is just the start

Can Albin Kurti and Kosovo’s likely new prime minister, steer the country towards political stability and economic prosperity?

‘Bully’ Bulgaria blocks Macedonian EU ambitions

With mounting political problems at home Bulgaria’s government looks to divert attention.

The threat FETO still poses to other countries

Fetullah Gulen's terrorist organisation has made major inroads in the Balkans where those who oppose them are bullied into silence.

Genocide denial and the reaffirmation of the Serbian nationalist project

A quarter of a century after the atrocities in Bosnia, dreams of a Greater Serbia still resonate.

Was the Srebrenica genocide aimed at the wider Muslim presence in Europe?

Some analysts see a connection between today's Islamophobia and the toxic Serbian nationalism of the 1990s, which sought to erase the Muslim Bosnian presence in the Balkans.

Why are racist statues falling in the West but rising in Bosnia?

Many still believe playwright Handke did not deserve the Nobel Prize for Literature, but plans for a statue of the Austrian have now crossed the line.