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BALKAN BLOG: General election is do or die for Albania’s EU future
June 22, 2017
Albania needs a free and fair election, and for the losing side to concede defeat peacefully, to finally progress to the negotiation stage.
BALKAN BLOG: Albania heads for political crisis as Democrats threaten election boycott
March 28, 2017
Rightwing obstruction of judicial reforms threatens European Union accession drive.
BALKAN BLOG: Russia the only winner as Macedonian crisis deepens
March 2, 2017
President Ivanov’s rejection of an SDSM-led government has added an explosive ethnic dimension to the already dangerous political conflict.
BALKAN BLOG: Borissov is so yesterday's man of the people
February 16, 2017
After two terms the Bulgarian premier can no longer sell himself to voters as an anti-establishment outsider.
BALKAN BLOG: Romanian government’s ‘useful idiots’ line up to undermine anti-corruption drive
February 3, 2017
Romania's anti-corruption agency is coming under concerted attack from critics inside and outside the country.