Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week takes a look at elections, energy deals, environmental summitry, ...

Vienna praises Sofia and Bucharest for cracking down on illegal migration – but final decision will be taken in December.

The benefits of entering the European Union’s single market are a bigger motivator for Serbia to fulfil conditions imposed ...

Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from prison in Poland.

Albania joined Kosovo in criticising Serbia's practice of marking ethnic Albanians' addresses as ‘inactive', describing it as a "violation of human rights and standards for the protection of ...

Romania’s prime minister is the bookies’ favourite to become president, probably after a December run-off. But few believe they’ll see a reinvigorated fight against corruption or drive for reform. A ...

Elsewhere, Hungary’s controversial commissioner gets another 4 years, this time in charge of animal welfare; Russia sabre-rattles over opening of first US permanent base in Poland; and Czechs approve ...

In a move to safeguard Bosnia’s cultural heritage, High Representative Christian Schmidt issued an order to support the ...

Ethnic Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo accused Serbia of discrimination after the Constitutional Court dismissed a man’s ...

A new system of checking how many days a person has spent inside Europe’s Schengen zone could spell trouble for Bosnia’s ...

After two years of relative calm, a knife attack targeting members of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities has sent ...