Balkans
Concern for Rights in Montenegro amid COVID-19 Fight
The country, which has been run by the same party for the past three decades, has a long record of restricting human rights and violating data privacy rights.
Activists fear the government will exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to clamp down further. The government says its overriding priority is to protect the lives and health of Montenegrin citizens.
The EU is Sending € 38 Million in Emergency Aid to Health in the Western Balkans
Neighbourhood and Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi announced that the European Union is sending € 38 million in emergency aid to the health care system of the Western Balkan countries.
More than € 373 million is planned for the socio-economic recovery of the region from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, Olivér Várhelyi wrote on Twitter.
US President hails bonds with Greece
President Donald Trump has highlighted strengthened defense and security cooperation between the United States and Greece saying that close partnership between the two NATO allies promotes Washington's interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Western Balkans.
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Weather Forecast Bulgaria: Snow will Continue, Northeast Winds will further Bring Cold Air
Today, the weather conditions in the country will remain complex. In northern and western Bulgaria, snow will continue to fall and accumulate.
EU moves to start membership talks with Albania, North Macedonia, draft shows
The European Union can start membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, according to a draft decision by the bloc's 27 member states seen by Reuters on Monday and due to be finalised this week.
Exhibition Tells Bosnian Women’s Tales of War and Peacetime
The exhibition opening in Belgrade. Photo: Igor Coko.
'Peace with Women's Face', an exhibition about women's experiences of surviving the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and overcoming the consequences in the post-conflict era, runs until March 17 at the Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO's exhibition space in Belgrade.
Brutal Memories: One Man’s Life in Detention in Wartime Bosnia
When the first barricades went up in Sarajevo at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992, some of the Bosniaks living in Kucice, a village near the town of Hadzici, not far from the capital, fled their homes in fear.
Hungary’s Green Fund for Western Balkans a ‘Win-Win’
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Balkan Countries Fear EU Green Deal Could Leave Them Further Behind
Green Dreams Splutter in Central and Southeast Europe
The Western Balkans Green Centre will initially make available around 1.2 million euros to drive green investments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
Bosnian Deported from US Faces Crimes Against Humanity Trial
Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic will go on trial on March 23 for crimes including murders, expulsions, unlawful arrests and pillage, the Bosnian state court decided on Tuesday.
Head of State Rumen Radev: Albania’s European Integration Serves the Interest of the Whole Region and the EU
At a meeting with Ilir Meta in Tirana, Rumen Radev voiced our country's expectation that a quick progress will be achieved in enforcing the rights of the Bulgarian national minority