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Editorial: Flawed elections confirm Europe is being strung along by a government intent on an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist agenda

The outcome of Serbia’s parliamentary elections on December 17 will have profound implications for peace in Europe. Though somewhat obscured by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and more recently the crisis in Gaza, tensions in the Balkans have risen sharply in recent months. Should Serbs reelect the main party of…

Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia have received positive news about their bids to join the European Union – but countries in the volatile Balkans…

Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are moving forward in their quests to join the European Union

Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, are scheduled to meet this weekend for the first time since Nato decided to send about 600 more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans early in October to mitigate some of the region’s growing tensions.

Leaders from the Western Balkans and several European countries are meeting for an annual summit in the Albanian capital Tirana, with few concrete decisions expected amid heightened tensions across the region.

Few places in the Balkans reveal the volatile ethnic politics of the region as much as stadiums

In 2021, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko began letting migrants cross his country's border into Poland to retaliate against EU sanctions. Poland strengthened its border controls, but the number of illegal migrant crossings into Germany has been surging in recent months. The Brandenburg region in eastern Germany now finds itself at…

The village likely dates to the time of Europe's first farmers, who arrived from Anatolia about 8,000 years ago.