After decades working as a journalist, including eight years as the director of RFE/RL's Balkan Service, Gordana Knezevic is leaving the RFE/RL due to illness and relocating to Canada to be closer ...

A semi-annual report on recent economic developments and the outlook in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). This edition’s spotlight ...

The risk of renewed violence and political instability is growing in the Balkans. The decade of progress in postconflict reconciliation and economic recovery after the U.S.-led interventions of ...

Moreover, once the Western Balkans are firmly ensconced within the EU, Washington can finally divest itself from its role as the power broker in the region. Until then, US involvement is ...

My goal is to see a Balkan lynx, but chances are slim. Lynx, Europe’s iconic medium-sized cat, are famously elusive. They are solitary and silent, traveling and hunting by night through high ...

Finland has a long-standing strong interest in the Western Balkans and supports its partners there in their European journey. But we also expect them to align fully with the EU’s foreign and ...

Actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87. The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: "Our thoughts are with her family and ...

Kosovo's prime minister said Thursday that the Balkan region has enjoyed the greatest degree of peace, freedom and democracy over the past 25 years but that this could be reversed if Russia ...

Western Balkan countries recently decided to make new investments in the field of defense and the region is reintroducing compulsory military service. The move comes as conflicts in Ukraine and ...

The message being that it isn't easy to win membership. For years Western Balkans states have tried to climb the accession ladder into the EU. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen conceded at a ...

Most Americans probably don't start their day by chomping into a whole pepper, but the Balkan breakfast trend circulating on ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed optimism over adding Balkan states to the bloc at the 10th annual Berlin ...