By bne IntelliNews A US-brokered peace deal in Ukraine that legitimises Russian territorial gains would risk reopening old ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow The US military operation that toppled Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has been warmly ...

Should all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU at the same time, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has suggested? What are the pros and cons? And how do the countries in question feel ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and German foreign minister Johann Wadephul welcomed the latest news about Gaza Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has affirmed the UK's commitment to stability in 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 ...

An energy crisis looms in the Western Balkans. As EU leaders scramble to maintain their energy supplies for the coming winter, at least two Western Balkans states – North Macedonia and Kosovo – will ...

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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 ...

The EU is committed to bringing the Western Balkan partners closer to the EU already during the enlargement process. In 2023, the EU launched the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. The Growth Plan ...

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 ...

The final frontier of Europe is this southeastern peninsula, where travellers can find Roman palaces, old Ottoman quarters, aquamarine bays and dramatic mountain hikes — but far fewer crowds. To beat ...

THE modern history books will tell you that Slovenia was part of communist Yugoslavia until 1991, and thus part of the Balkans. You would never guess so from spending a few hours in Ljubljana, ...