If Kosovo makes practical moves towards unification with Albania, the government in Belgrade will come under strong...

I collect trash to survive but the curfew makes it hard to go out. They demolished our market, and I’m afraid my...

Many of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the...

In To the Lake, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova takes an evocative journey through Balkan borderlands, enchanting...

Some may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for...

Social democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...

On occasion of the publication of “Bunkers” by Manuel Montobbio, a book on the totalitarian experience, we propose a...

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania tells the extraordinary story of how one man held an entire country hostage...

The recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense,...

Haki Stërmilli 1936 novel If I Were a Boy portrays the contemporary problems of Albanian society that stem from a...

Sixty miles north, in the rocky and desolate Spaç labor camp, political prisoners watched the ceremony from wooden...

A recent spate of terrorist attacks in Albania has drawn virtually no international attention. But the consequences...

Were UEFA being dangerously naive when they allowed Serbia and Albania to be drawn into the same qualifying group?

Instead of bringing the focus back to sports, UEFA’s decision about the abandoned Albania-Serbia game has given an...

On life in prison generally, the most common complaints across five countries were about hygiene and space.

The post-1945 system is today overtaken by events and a new world order is about to emerge. This new—quite...

A new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national...

Albania has been leading the Balkan region in its management of women prisoners – a complex group to detain and...

A handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.

“Are you saying that Le Pen has a branch even in Albania?!” – intervened the one who had found the envelope. “Yes,...