In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties following a wave of protests. Lea Ypi was an 11 year old schoolgirl at the time and watched events with ...

Conservatives levied another fraud allegation against Somalis, this time linking the country's UN ambassador to an Ohio ...

Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus ...

Prologue On December 20, 2025, the European Union (EU) almost crossed the Rubicon. It tried seizing Russian financial assets in Belgium for funding and ...

The power of the mind. With football increasingly becoming a physical meat grinder, preparing down to the smallest ...

FOR EDI RAMA these are the best of times and the worst of times—but mostly the best. In May Albania’s prime minister was elected to a fourth consecutive term. His country’s GDP has grown by 160% in ...

The State Department is so far refusing to comment on a growing corruption crisis engulfing the Balkan nation of Albania, a vital U.S. ally in the region. Following an Albanian court’s decision to ...

Opposition lawmakers scuffled with police inside Albania’s parliament on Thursday after weeks of escalating tensions over corruption allegations against Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku and other ...

The Netherlands might be the best national team to have never won the World Cup. The Dutch have built a long history of elite ...

As 2025 unfolded, returning to the ritual of asking filmmakers about the films that moved them feels both fragile and ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. Democracy and the rights of women are being undermined in Albania by the ...