An Italian appeals court has refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a ...

In our weekly roundup of Balkan Insight Premium stories, political crises big and small are engulfing several countries in the region, while others gear up for tense elections - and a story of ...

Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their fair share of cults of personality (cue the eponymous 1988 song by Living ...

According to data from AirDNA, demand created 440 million nights in short-term rental accommodations, marking an increase of 17.3% compared to 2023. In December alone, overnight stays reached 28.9 ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s ...

The number of foreign visitors to Bulgaria increased by an annual 6.1% in December, reaching 833,300, of whom 35.5% arrived ...

We had the incredible op­portunity recently to visit a country that many people have not even thought of as a tourist ...

Their journeys take them through pine forests and snow-covered mountains, along railway tracks and roads that lead to a hoped ...

The number of one-way seats that the Swiss airline Edelweiss will offer in Heraklion, Crete, during the first half of 2025 has increased by 4% ...

Archbishop Anastasios Υannoulatos was an enlightened prelate and a distinguished academic. In 2000 he was candidate for the ...

He "passed away" at the age of 95 - He was very active in Orthodox youth organizations - He founded the first missionary ...

A new museum opens in Kosovar capital Pristina, full of belongings and mementos from childhoods spent during the country's conflict. Kosovo saw a bloody civil war from 1998-1999 between ethnic ...