Southeastern Europe

The EU has offered an updated and considerably more robust strategy for the region, but will it do enough to change the dynamics in the region?

The United States and the EU must do more to show the citizens of the Balkans that a peaceful European future is still possible.

Macedonian President Nikola Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party won a narrow victory in the country's recent parliamentary elections. Over the course of his ten-year rule,...

Montenegro, which has fewer residents than Nashville and an army of only 2,000 troops, is an unlikely strategic harbinger of U.S.-Russian relations.

The recent Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church highlighted the growing influence of the Russian church in Eastern Orthodoxy.

On August 20, just hours after Greece received the first tranche of its 86 billion euro bailout and just seven months after he assumed office, Greek Prime Minister...

With Macedonia facing its worst ever political crisis, with Bosnian unity at its most...

To help contain Russia, Washington must use its influence to break the stalemate within Europe over NATO and EU expansion in the Balkans.

The turmoil unfolding in Ukraine provides the people of Ukraine with an opportunity to make their country a better place, but only if their leaders follow...

Ten years ago, eight eastern European states joined the European Union, seemingly locking them onto an upward developmental trajectory. But now this supposed...

While the grim effects of the 2008 financial crisis still resonate across the globe, the recession wasn't all bad: it triggered fundamental economic restructuring,...

There has been considerable hand-wringing in western capitals about Turkey and Iran building a closer relationship. But such worries exaggerate the common interests...

The center-right New Democracy (ND) party and the Coalition of the Radical Left, known as Syriza, are in a dead heat in the run-up to Sunday's Greek legislative...

Two years, three sovereign bailouts, more than a trillion euros in cheap ECB loans, and dozens of summits later, the latest developments in Germany suggest that...