Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy.

A church service in Shkoder in November 2016 to celebrate the beatification of 38 Catholics who were executed by Albania’s former communist regime. Photo: EPA/STR. How Albania Became the World’s First ...

China’s Huawei has come to dominate the 5G rollout in Cyprus, with risks for data security and independent policymaking that go far beyond the island’s shores, experts warn. This post is also ...

A bilingual Serbian and Arabic speaker went from translating for migrants and refugees to smuggling them over borders and taking down rivals with the help of police officers on his payroll. This post ...

Edi Rama slated the court decision suspending Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku while she faces a graft probe – and threatened to take the matter to the Constitutional Court. Albanian PM Edi Rama ...

Fresh elections look inevitable after Glauk Konjufca, the Vetevendosje party’s second proposal for prime minister, failed to get a majority of votes in parliament on Wednesday. Glauk Konjufca of ...

‘Live with it for 10 years,’ negotiator Miro Lazovic recalls US mediator Richard Holbrooke saying of the peace deal that ended the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Thirty years later, the unwieldy system of ...

An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say ...

Even after Russia publicly accused it of betrayal, Serbia approved the transit through its territory of almost 1,000 artillery shells from Bosnia on behalf of a Czech company tasked with keeping ...

Churches in southeast Europe are under growing pressure to address the theological and practical issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence in religion. When the 14th century Tuman Orthodox ...

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Albania has benefited heavily from funds to fight graft and strengthen democracy, yet all it has to show from more than a decade of rule by Edi Rama are high-rise apartment blocks and an exodus of ...