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My Europe Series

Violence and vigilantes add to winter woes of migrants in the Balkans

Thousands are camped near the Bosnia/Croatia border as sub-zero temperatures sweep in ahead of winter.

18/12/2020

My Europe Series

Dayton Agreement at 25: How is the peace deal viewed today in Serbia?

The Dayton Agreement was a peace deal signed 25 years ago to end the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.

15/12/2020

Montenegro

What's behind the public spat between Serbia and Montenegro?

Vladimir Bozovic was on Saturday given 72 hours to leave Montenegro after claiming that a century-old decision in 1918 to merge with Serbia was “free expression of the people’s will to unite with fraternal Serbia”.

30/11/2020

Montenegro

Montenegro and Serbia expel respective ambassadors in tit for tat

The diplomatic incident between Montenegro and Serbia adds to already tense relations between the Balkan states that were part of the same country until an independence referendum in 2006.

28/11/2020

My Europe Series

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic bet big on Donald Trump and lost. Now what?

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic had a friend in President Donald Trump. With Joe Biden, life may not be so easy.

24/11/2020

Serbia

Euroviews. Belgrade's Biden conundrum: How US-Serbian relations will shape up post-Trump ǀ View

Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić had hoped for a Trump victory in the US presidential election. The elevation of Joe Biden to the presidency poses many challenges for him, both domestically and internationally.

23/11/2020

Serbia

Serbian Orthodox Church leader dies from COVID-19, aged 90

Patriarch Irinej was taken to hospital earlier in November after going to the funeral of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, Bishop Amfilohije.

20/11/2020

Serbia

Serbian police arrest two people after seven bodies found in Paraguay

Serbian police have arrested two people for migrant smuggling in connection with the recent discovery of seven bodies in a shipping container in Paraguay.

29/10/2020

My Europe Series

How Serbia's addiction to coal could cloud its future in Europe

When much of Europe is turning against coal, Serbia is continuing to open new mines, often financed and built by China.

21/10/2020

Serbia

Serbia has rolled out the red carpet to China - but at what cost?

Serbs living close to a Chinese-owned plant complain about sky-rocketing pollution. Activists say their concerns have fallen on deaf ears in Belgrade.

08/10/2020

My Europe Series

Will the €4bn Belgrade-Budapest rail upgrade be a benefit or burden?

Without effective rail connections from Belgrade to Greece, “this railway will go from nowhere to nowhere,” says Laszlo Varju, an MP for the centre-left Democratic Coalition party.

06/10/2020

Green News

What is the Blue Heart of Europe and why does it need saving?

Hydropower projects in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all over the Balkans are threatening an ecological gem.

26/09/2020

Romania

Romanian border police accused of alleged violence against migrants

Migrants have shared testimonies of their alleged physical abuse by Romanian border guards, who illegally expelled them back to Serbia.

22/09/2020

My Europe Series

Serbia’s Muslim enclave fears new ethnic violence

Residents of Muslim-majority Sandzak say that Belgrade has never recognised its responsibility for the violence of the 1990s.

21/09/2020

Russia

Putin apologises to Serbian leader over ministry spokeswoman's post

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, posted a picture of Vucic's meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week with a picture of Sharon Stone's legs from the Basic Instinct movie underneath.

11/09/2020

Montenegro

Montenegro’s future is in the EU, says its prime minister-in-waiting

Russia's influence in Montenegro has been 'over-emphasised', according to the university professor who will likely be the Balkan country's next leader.

10/09/2020

Serbia

Serbia's Vucic non-committal on Trump’s Jerusalem embassy comment

President Aleksander Vucic appeared somewhat taken aback when the US President declared that Serbia had agreed to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.

07/09/2020

Europe News

Kosovo-Serbia talks resume in Brussels after stateside meeting

Balkan analyst Đorđe Bojović says the Washington talks were more about Trump securing a foreign policy win ahead of November's presidential election than securing a settlement between Kosovo and Serbia.

07/09/2020

USA

Serbia and Kosovo agree to closer economic ties in US-brokered deal

US president Donald Trump announced Serbia and Kosovo have normalized economic ties after a meeting with the country's leaders at the White House.

05/09/2020

USA

Serbia and Kosovo normalise economic ties after White House talks

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti both described the deal, a diplomatic boost for Donald Trump, as a "huge step forward".

04/09/2020