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SKOPJE – The European Commission has lifted the suspension of IPARD III funds for North Macedonia, restoring access to the programme, aimed at assisting EU candidate countries in modernising their agriculture and rural economies. The disbursement of funds for the country had been…

TIRANA – On 28 April, Albania, the United States, and Greece signed a 20-year energy agreement valued at 6 billion dollars, which focuses on supplying American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Albania and developing regional energy infrastructure. Albanian media report that the agr…

PRISTINA – Kosovo’s parliament failed to elect a new president of Kosovo in its last attempt before the deadline expired, which implies that Kosovo will go to the third general election in just over a year. Last night’s parliamentary session was attended only by…

PODGORICA – President of Montenegro Jakov Milatović and President of the European Council António Costa have sent a joint invitation letter for participation in the EU-Western Balkans Summit, which will be held on 5 June in Tivat. It was stated by President of Montenegro that the…

Last Monday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) held a meeting attended by Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. While the discussion focused on enlargement and the perspectives of candidate countries, Commissioner addressed Serbia in the contex…

Last week, Serbian media reported that the Government of Serbia had instructed all state institutions to pay special attention, when drafting laws and by-laws, to their alignment with the EU acquis and to whether proposals had been previously consulted with the European Commissio…

BRUSSELS – Albania and Montenegro have received recognition from the European Commission for their reform efforts, standing out among partner countries at this year’s Institution Building Days, the EU’s flagship event dedicated to strengthening public administration and ins…

STRASBOURG – The Venice Commission has published today its urgent opinion on the amendments to a set of five laws governing the judiciary and the prosecution service which were adopted on 28 January 2026 by the National Assembly of Serbia. These amendments were proposed by Uglješ…

BELGRADE – American Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, met Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić today in Belgrade. The US Embassy to Serbia stated that it was “a constructive meeting on launching a new era” in relations between the two countries. “We value Serbia’s role in…

BELGRADE – Kosovo’s Ambassador to Brussels, Agron Bajrami, has been appointed Chief Negotiator in the technical dialogue on the normalisation of relations with Serbia. The office of Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, announced that Bajrami will at the same time co…

BRUSSELS –Yesterday’s decision by the ambassadors of the EU member states to approve the establishment of the ad hoc working group to draft the Accession Treaty with Montenegro has been met with widespread optimism from EU and Montenegrin officials. The move is considered a “hist…

Rumen Radev, until recently President of Bulgaria and the leader of the new Progressive Bulgaria party, secured a decisive victory in the April 2026 parliamentary election, winning 131 out of 240 seats. The result is expected to end a cycle of technocratic governments, which have…

BRUSSELS – Ambassadors of EU member states approved today the establishment of an ad hoc working group to draft the Accession Treaty with Montenegro, Radio-Television of Montenegro (RTCG) reported. The information was confirmed by the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of th…

While the tenure of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, is not strictly fixed by a calendar, there has been ongoing speculation that he will leave the post following the October 2026 general elections. The discourse surrounding his potential resi…

One of the many questions raised by the landslide election victory of the opposition Tisza party on 12 April, which ended the 16-year rule of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz, concerns the impact of the change of government in Budapest on Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries, inc…

BRUSSELS – The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, has warned the six Western Balkan countries that they risk collectively losing more than 700 million euros from the EU Growth Plan by mid-year due to a failure to implement reforms, Radio Free Europe (RFE) has…

BUDAPEST – The extradition of former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski remains legally blocked, as the formal mechanisms needed to initiate the process are currently not in place. According to Hungarian Telex, the extradition request submitted by the previous Govern…

BELGRADE – “We cannot afford to get someone, a new EU member state, who will make us weaker. We are not a bunch of friends, but a community of values”, remarked EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, at a yesterday’s discussion organised by the Atlantic Council, during…

PRISTINA – Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, hosted a Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Peter Sørensen, at a working dinner on 15 April in Pristina. The Government of Kosovo stated that they discussed the European Union integration process, “includin…

U.S. commitment to the Western Balkans has looked shaky under the second Trump administration. Washington has been vocal about pulling back its security commitments and shifting more responsibility to Europe, diplomatic posts remain unfilled, and the administration has drawn crit…

BELGRADE – Hungary’s election winner, Péter Magyar, posted on X that he had talked by the phone with President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ), Bálint Pásztor, on 15 April. He noted that on the same day he had also spoken to László Gubík, President of the Hungarian…

BERLIN – The accession of Montenegro to the EU by 2028 is still realistic, and the country’s goal is full membership, in contrast to recent proposals from the region that advocated for a lower level of integration. These were the points made by the President of Monten…

BUDAPEST / SKOPJE – The winner of the Hungarian parliamentary election, Péter Magyar, hinted earlier this week that he could extradite former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who was granted political asylum in Hungary in 2018. The Ministry of Justice of North Mac…

PRISTINA – Fifteen days remain until the constitutional deadline for electing a new president, but there are still no indications on the political scene that a consensus can be reached on the issue, KoSSev reports. The Constitutional Court has set April 28 as the deadline f…

BUDAPEST / BELGRADE – At an international press conference held on 13 April, the winner of the Hungarian election, Péter Magyar, commented to Serbian N1 television on the discovery of an explosive device near the Serbian–Hungarian pipeline during the final week of the elect…