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Eight Dead on a Hungarian Motorway: A Minibus With Moldovan Plates and One Familiar Balkan Story

A pile-up near Győr, all the victims foreigners on a road far from home. How many of our own people...

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Hungary Invites Croatia Into the Visegrad Group - Flattering, but With a Hidden Catch

Magyar proposes expanding from four to eight members. But in the Brussels-Washington rivalry, small states forever walk the wire: close...

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Tito's Yacht Galeb Eats Millions, Nobody Finishes the Job - 22 Million Euros for Restoration, a Museum With No Door

Italian banana freighter from the 1930s, bombed in Benghazi, sunk in Rijeka, restored for Tito. Today - the symbol of...

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Vučić Promises Police Reform After the Nešović Case - "No Mafia Police," But Serbia Has 20 Years of Similar Promises and Very Little Reform

A former police officer is the main suspect in the murder of Nešović, whose body was found in a barrel....

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Greece Moves to Ban E-Scooters for Under-18s: Skopje Still Has No Legal Framework

Devices sold at 70-100 km/h on a market where the legal speed limit is 25, after a string of fatal...

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Tirana on Fire: Molotovs, Water Cannon, and the Question the Balkans Are Asking More Quietly

The Democratic Party demands Rama's resignation, demonstrators throw burning bottles at parliament. Skopje 2016, Belgrade 2024, Sarajevo 2018 - different...

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The Jadran Between Podgorica and Zagreb: A 95-Year-Old Sailing Ship at the Center of a Diplomatic Crisis With No Visible End

Montenegro forms a dialogue commission, Croatia insists on its return, and the post-Yugoslav fight over inheritance gets another chapter -...

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Bulgaria With a New Government: 124 for Radev, Absolute Majority, and the Chance to End the Political Crisis - and the Blockade Toward Skopje

Progressive Bulgaria forms a cabinet with four deputy prime ministers and 18 ministers, budget and judicial reforms first in line...

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A Minor in Pula in a Yugoslav Army Uniform With a Red Star at Tito's Grave: Where Does the Line Between Freedom and Disturbing Public Order Run?

Croatian police charge a misdemeanour, the reasoning - the JNA was a military aggressor - but the question rarely raised...

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Vucic Lays Out a Five-Point Plan for Serbia: Supercomputers, Nuclear, Fewer State Officials

Cutting ministers, nuclear power, AI - a strategy that stands out on the Balkans. Macedonia announced 19 new kindergartens.

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Vučić Heads to China and Calls It „The Most Important Visit of His Career". What About Macedonia?

Military-tech cooperation, infrastructure, AI, education. Belgrade plays a different geopolitical hand than Skopje. What are we doing - apart from...

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Bulgarian Carer Abused 82-Year-Old Woman With Dementia on Chios: A Hidden Camera Exposed the Unregulated Care

A Bulgarian woman in Greece, a Polish woman in Germany, an Albanian woman in Italy - the names change, the...

05 May 2026 Read more →