After gaining their membership in NATO, and especially after the big-bang EU enlargement of 2004, the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), used their political, diplomatic and economic resources to support the Western Balkans’ road into the EU-Atlantic ...

Compiled by Eva Jovanova and Hristo Voynov   1. Bosnian Serb ex-President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, was sentenced to a life sentence this Wednesday. The United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague increased Karadzic’s initial ...

Compiled by Hristo Voynov and Eva Jovanova   1. Slovakian businessman Marian Kočner has been charged with ordering the killing of investigative reporter Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, after over a year of the police investigating the murder. ...

Compiled by Eva Jovanova and Hristo Voynov   1. Bosnia and Herzegovina might have a government by the end of March! The leaders of the three main parties divided along ethnic lines met on Wednesday and announced that they are ...

Compiled by Eva Jovanova and Hristo Voynov   1. Albanian mass protests escalated this week. After the opposition rally last week that numbered thousands of protestors, this week 57 opposition MPs from the Socialist Movement and the Democratic Party announced ...