Gradual access is a chance no earlier candidate has been given: to prove European credentials inside the market before joining the EU. Encouragingly, work is already under way, with two of the six ...

A massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania—respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed ...

Albania (pop. 1,100,000) is the most obscure, backward and isolated country behind the Iron Curtain. The best place to find information about life inside the small Red satellite these days is ...

Serbia took on Balkan neighbours Albania in a crucial FIFA World Cup qualifier on October 11 - the latest instalment of a ...

John Watkins’ new travelogue offers an intriguing snapshot of a country still scarred by the legacy of its brutal dictator. Over the past 10 to 15 years, it would be easy for someone with only a ...

Dragan Stojkovic resigns as boss of England's group rivals Serbia immediately after his side's 1-0 World Cup qualifying ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...