Serbia’s dangerous dance
- Serbian President Vucic is dancing a particularly dangerous dance on a razor's edge, trying to get more from the...
Western Balkans
Francesco Trupia: Kosovo Serbs have their own agency [video]
Cross-Border Talks discussed with the Italian political scientist and historian Francesco Trupia about the EU-brokered negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina....
Montenegro decides to retire its President Milo Đukanović
Nikolay Krastev, Balkan Pool, 12 April 2023 The loss of the Montenegrin presidential election by the doyen of the local...
Nikolay Krastev: Bulgaria and North Macedonia need media based on mutual curiosity
Nikolay Krastev is one of Bulgaria’s leading experts on the Western Balkans. He was the correspondent for Bulgarian National Radio...
Francesco Trupia: North Kosovo crisis – the dilemma and turnaround for Kosovo Serbs
After the 1999 Kosovo War, Belgrade established its parallel system to exert control over Kosovo Serbs and cement ethnic partition...
Maria Simeonova: Brussels is determined to uphold the European perspective of the six Western Balkan countries
Maria Simeonova is the programme coordinator for the Wider Europe programme and ECFR’s Sofia office. She focuses on the Western...
Moscow’s Leverage in the Balkans
Since September, Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has...
Nidžara Ahmetašević: Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are part of a political experiment
The Bosnian journalist Nidžara Ahmetašević speaks to Cross-border Talks about living in a political experiment together with her fellow citizens....
Iulian Mareș: The Balkans do not have a culture of cooperation, but they have a special energy of revival, which we must use
- The spirit of collaboration is not very characteristic of the Balkan region in a genuine or sustainable way. We...
The Battle for the Faith: the Macedonian Church Question between the Moscow and Ecumenical Patriarchates
This is not the first time Russia has used the Church issue to achieve its goals and consolidate its influence...
