But a day before the meeting, on December 17, the EU capital hosts another summit that is completely overshadowed by events ...

How do the countries of the Western Balkans fare when it comes to structural reforms, digitalisation, and renewable energy ...

New research shows Roman gold and silver mining in the Balkans was central to imperial finances, coinage, and power for ...

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.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Some of the best and brightest have been fleeing life in the Western Balkans in droves in recent decades. And there's no end in sight. Serbia's recent announcement that its population had sunk to ...

[Unfortunately, through miscarriage in the mails, this paper is some six weeks overdue; but the Editors thought that Mr. Buxton’s great knowledge of the Near-Eastern question would still be useful to ...

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 ...