At a summit in Brussels of leaders from the European Union and the six western Balkan states on December 18th, Aleksandar ...

Romania and Bulgaria fully joined the European Union's Schengen zoneon Wednesday, eliminating land border controls to other member states. The Schengen zone allows residents to travel between ...

After the stroke of midnight, the Bulgarian and Romanian interior ministers symbolically raised a barrier on the Friendship ...

Ukraine's decision to turn off the taps keeping Russian gas flowing via its territory to Europe has already sown trouble in ...

Corruption, migration, online criminality, violent misogyny and the arms trade: in a turbulent year, BIRN’s team of ...