Bulgaria and North Macedonia disagree over the conditions and timeframe for North Macedonia's EU accession, despite an agreement to maintain dialogue.
The European Commission's plan for a wider EU only gives roadmaps to four frontrunners, offering six other hopefuls piecemeal access to EU policies instead.
The European Commission proposed measures to prepare the European Union for future enlargement, including stronger safeguards against democratic backsliding.
Serbia to begin work on 145-km gas interconnector with North Macedonia, as neighbours step up efforts to strengthen regional energy security and diversify gas and electricity supply routes.
Romanian airline AnimaWings filed for insolvency on September 30, two weeks after Latvia's flag carrier airBaltic sought US Chapter 11 protection.
Croatia has signed up to an initiative for an Adriatic-Ionian railway corridor linking its ports with Italy, Slovenia, the Western Balkans and Greece.
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The perpetrator and those who ordered the attack on Kiro Gligorov, the first president of independent Macedonia, have never been identified, and the investigation remains open.
EU enlargement would add about 65mn people to a bloc running out of workers, and much of the migration voters fear has already happened, a CEPS report argues.
Ursula von der Leyen encourages neighbouring countries to start a new phase of dialogue during Skopje visit.
Despite global conflicts and shortages of aviation fuel, airports across Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans are recording significant growth in passenger numbers.
Overall fall driven by declines in mining and manufacturing.
According to a draft European Commission proposal, candidate countries could be offered gradual access to the EU's single market while they continue working towards full membership.
North Macedonia is considering building the long-delayed Čebren and Galishte hydropower project without a private partner after 14 unsuccessful tenders.
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After years of political deadlock between Skopje and Sofia, a new idea has entered the debate over North Macedonia’s stalled European integration: the involvement of a European mediator in talks with Bulgaria.
Digital Transformation Minister Stefan Andonovski says Skopje is working on two parallel tracks: attracting private investment in data centres and building a National Data Center.
Hristijan Mickoski rejects calls for North Macedonia to amend its constitution to recognise Bulgarians as a minority, saying there was no guarantee the change would ensure EU accession.
Croatia is blocking Montenegro from closing an EU accession chapter in the latest in a series of long-running bilateral disputes that have turned into a wider test of the accession process.
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The US State Department has notified Congress that it will redirect $52mn in foreign military financing away from Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq and towards Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
The European Union should not let the progress of Montenegro and Albania towards membership overshadow unresolved political and reform challenges elsewhere in the Western Balkans, said a paper published by the ECFR.
Albania's trade deficit widened 17.4% y/y to €570mn as imports rose sharply while export growth remained subdued.