The Balkans is not just a region-its the Valhalla of mythmaking. As Nazi forces overran Belgrade in April 1941, few could ...

European leaders descend on Albania on Friday for a meeting sure to be dominated by the war in Ukraine, but small Balkan ...

European Council President António Costa has called on North Macedonia to change its constitution to include the Bulgarian ...

The roots of this criminal expansion lie in the Balkans' turbulent 1990s, marked by the collapse of communism, separatist wars and economic instability. Smuggling operations – initially focused ...

What were the Balkan Wars? The Balkan Wars were two separate wars, fought in rapid succession, in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan ...

In 1888, a generation before the First World War started, the German arch-statesman Otto von Bismarck predicted that a great European war was coming over some “damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” ...

European Council's president Antonio Costa has praised Montenegro for its progress on the path toward membership in the ...

A few days of war in the Balkans and in Libya, though they were days in which small forces forged huge swords out of nothing but courage, were nevertheless days in which the gains of long ...