The recently-passed Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act shows that some US lawmakers still care about the region. But it doesn’t mean that Donald Trump is going to tell Aleksandar Vucic to be ...

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A worker’s death at the Aurora Solar project in Stolac exposed 71 illegal Chinese laborers, prompting authorities to halt construction and investigate land misuse. Local residents have mobilized over ...

A fatal accident at a Chinese-backed solar plant in Stolac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, led to investigations uncovering illegal workers and legal irregularities in the construction of the $116 million ...

The musical tale of three shipwrecked souls makes for an unusually linear Mountain Goats record, full of powerful moments that not even the eternally moving John Darnielle can scrape into the whole it ...

The Mountain Goats’ latest album, “Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan,” documents the journey of a fictional shipwrecked crew and the narrator’s struggles after being one of the only survivors ...

BLAZUJ, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- After first flying from China to Serbia and then traveling by bus to neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, two young Chinese men are weighing entering the European Union ...

The Western Balkan countries remain important corridors in Europe for drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, says the 2025 Organised Crime Index, produced by an anti-graft NGO. Montenegrin ...

CHAMPAIGN — The language, unsurprisingly, has been one of the most difficult adjustments for David Mirković in his three months at Illinois. The 6-foot-9 freshman from Montenegro has spoken English ...

SARAJEVO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Western Balkan countries should work towards introducing their own carbon pricing on electricity generation to mitigate the impact of new EU taxes on fossil fuel-generated ...