Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities on Sunday overwhelmingly boycotted a vote on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year’s mayoral elections.
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Economic growth in the six Western Balkan countries is projected to rise 3.2% this year and 3.5% in 2025, going back to pre-pandemic averages but still too low for faster convergence with the European Union, the World Bank has said in a report.
It never occurred to Baki Bajraktari that the presence of hydrogen in the Bulqize chrome mine where he works in northeastern Albania could be considered good news: a colleague died in an explosion in 2011 when a team hit a gas pocket.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reaffirmed Greece’s commitment to supporting the European Union integration efforts of Western Balkan countries during his Wednesday meeting with Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milojko Spajiψ.
Every country that wants to become a member of the European Union “must fulfill the conditions,” Natasa Pirc Musar, the president of Slovenia, tells Kathimerini, discussing the integration of the Western Balkans.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is an unpredictable leader in a region crucial for Balkan peace and stability. Striving to maintain a balanced stance between the West and Russia, he has for years benefited from European and American investments, alongside diplomatic support from Russia (particularly concerning Kosovo) and energy assistance. He likes to brag about these […]
The Foreign Ministry has said it “warmly welcomes the decision of the European Council to start the accession negotiations of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the European Union.”
A senior US official visited Montenegro Monday to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union.
Ministers from Greece, Bulgaria and Romania held a working meeting in Sofia on Thursday to discuss the development of a transport corridor which will start from the port of Alexandroupolis and end in ports of the Black Sea and the trade routes of the Danube, through Bulgaria.
The European Commission is set to recommend that the EU open accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Western Balkan country.
The European Union’s executive arm will recommend that member countries open accession negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Western Balkan country.
The new prospects and developments in the energy sector will be discussed at the Balkan Energy Forum organized by the Interior Ministry and TIF-Helexpo in Kozani, on May 23-25. The Balkan Energy Forum will be held at the Exhibition Center of Western Macedonia at Koila, Kozani and is organized jointly with the Kozani Chamber of […]
Former Prime Minister and former leftist SYRIZA head Alexis Tsipras was elected as president of the Council of Europe’s Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans with 80% of the vote.
There are signs of optimism in the Western Balkans, but the countries in the region are not closer to becoming part of the European Union, despite the bloc’s investments, said Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis on Tuesday.
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic attend a press conference in Belgrade, Monday.
Leaders of the six Western Balkan countries, including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, met on Monday in Skopje, North Macedonia to discuss reforms needed to access the European Union growth plan presented last October.
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