Who has been to Kosovo? This is often the first question I ask when I am presenting at conferences or forums around Europe. The show of hands is usually very limited, if...
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Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have heightened over the past several days following the arrest of a senior Serbian official in northern Kosovo. The brief detention...
Employment figures in the Western Balkans were boosted last year by the creation of 231,000 new jobs across the six countries of the region: Serbia, Montenegro...
Despite the majority of households in Kosovo having access to the internet both via fixed and mobile broadband connections, 38.7 per cent of the country’s population...
Bulgaria, as well as non-EU member states including Albania, Bosnia and Ukraine still do not meet the requirements of the Third Energy Package for the liberalisation of...
Estonia – by quite some distance – is viewed as being the least corrupt country in emerging Europe, according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, published...
“Without a doubt there are still politically difficult issues and we shouldn’t hide from investors. We should be frank, open and honest about trying to resolve them, and...
Kosovar Albanian pop singer Dua Lipa, who emigrated to the UK – alone – as a teenager, won best British female and British breakthrough artist at the 2018...
Kosovo, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of its independence from Serbia on February 17, is still trying to find its way going forward.
The European Commission has set out a broad strategy for what it calls “a credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans.” The strategy confirms the European...
The European parliament’s rapporteur on Kosovo Igor Soltes said on January 31 that Kosovo was “off the train” to visa liberalisation. In an interview with the Kosovan...
It will take as many as six decades for income levels in the Western Balkans to catch up with those of the European Union (EU) if economies in the region continue to...