A decade after wars redesigned the political map of the Balkans, there is concern over the growing influence of radical Islam in the region. Mounting poverty and international isolation are making ...

Map 3 gives the boundaries in Thrace that have been projected or actually delimited during the past forty-odd years. No natural or ethnic divisions can really be found. Elsewhere in the Balkan ...

Turkey hopes to expand its influence by investing in infrastructure and religious landmark buildings across the Western Balkans. Building mosques are part and parcel of Ankara's geopolitical agenda, ...

Balkans analyst Edward P. Joseph tells DW that the Open Balkan initiative, which is supported by Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia, has "dangerous implications" for the region.

The 1995 Dayton Peace Accord — though imperfect as a political framework for a functioning state — is a good example of the sort of diplomacy we should deploy in the Kosovo-Serbian dialogue. To strike ...

Such men and methods might have succeeded in Marsovia, but they we’re hopelessly archaic in the hideous, clear and simple 1946 Balkan political picture. More Must-Reads from TIME Cybersecurity ...

The eurozone debt crisis 10 years ago, a 2015 migration wave into Europe and the U.K.'s 2016 referendum decision to pull out of the EU also contributed to political unease with the bloc’s ...

West persistent in transforming Balkans into springboard against Russia - Lavrov MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. Unilaterally remaking the map of the Balkans should not be permitted, Russian Prime ...

BERLIN — Two decades after the Kosovo War ended, a political settlement between Belgrade and Pristina remains elusive and frustration hangs heavy over the region. Europe can no longer afford to wait ...