It is difficult to put into words what the eyes can see in this UNESCO world heritage site, the Museum City of Gjirokastra. As you climb up the steep, cobbled road, leaving modern buildings behind, you enter a fairy-story-like world, half expecting a dragon to come around a corner and ask for something in turn for the release a of pretty princess.
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting to Begin
Belgrade | 20 August 2010
The first BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting is set to open in Novi Sad.
EU Mulls Podgorica's 'Economic Citizenship’ Plan
Podgorica | 13 August 2010Montenegro's controversial "economic citizenship" plan will be conducted in accordance with the country's obligations to the EU, the government had announced.
Germans criticise Montenegrin Citizenship Plan
Belgrade | 11 August 2010Montenegro risks being removed from the White Schengen list if the government goes ahead with an "economic citizenship" plan, a member of the German coalition government has said.
Montenegro Rivals Jockey To Fill Outgoing Leader’s Shoes
| 20 August 2010
As speculation intensifies that Milo Djukanovic is about to leave the political stage, the jostling for power within his party has begun in earnest.
Kosovo Pulls Off Its First Balkan Presidential Summit
Pristina | 30 June 2010
The outcome was little more than warm words – but the fact that four heads of state met in Prizren at all dealt a blow to Serbia’s campaign of isolation.
Lack of Political Will Thwarts Anticorruption Efforts
Belgrade, Bucharest, Pristina, Tirana, Skopje, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb, Podgorica and Brussels. | 04 June 2010
Following warnings from the European Union that the bloc won’t admit countries still mired in corruption, governments in the Balkans have lined up to proclaim “zero tolerance” for corrupt behaviour. But how serious are they?
'The West Wants a Decaffeinated Kosovo'
08 September 2009 Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and sociologist Slavoj Zizek tells BIRN`s Life in Kosovo show that conflict in the Balkans could be avoided with an exchange of territory.
EU ‘Agreeing to Disagree’ on Balkans Holds Dangers
By Gjergji Vurmo02 February 2010 The uneven policies of EU countries towards enlargement in the Western Balkans and Turkey are sending the wrong message to the region.
BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting to Begin
Gordana Andric20 August 2010
The first BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting is set to open in Novi Sad.
