Balkans

Greece is actively promoting stability and economic growth in the Balkans via a political solution that unlocks the area's potential to join the European Union and other international groups, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday, speaking at the...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be awarded on Monday in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his contribution to peacekeeping in the Balkan region. The Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Denis Zvizdic, will present the award at an event organised...

Elite units from three Balkan countries have conducted a joint military exercise with Greek special forces near Athens. Units from Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania joined their Greek counterparts in the exercise Salamis Storm 2018, in what is being seen as...

Amid the ongoing wrangling over the Greece, FYROM name dispute, the U.S. ambassador to Athens has said the issue "holds the key to unlocking deeper economic and global ties between Greece and the Western Balkans". Speaking at the 2018 Balkans...

The foreign ministers of eight central European and Balkan EU countries meeting in Greece have called for a more democratic and socially-just Europe. Friday's meetings in Sounio, south of Athens, bring together ministers from the Visegrad Group -- Poland, the...

The new Foreign Affairs Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, said that the country is willing to change its name in order to overcome Greece's objection and become part of NATO. According to the Financial Times,...

Researchers have found evidence that the split of the great ape and human lineage took place in the Eastern Mediterranean and not in Africa and that the first pre-human walked in the Northern Greece-Balkans area, according to an article...

The heads of the Greek and Turkish armed forces exchanged views on the situation in the Balkans on Wednesday at the annual meeting of Balkan chiefs of defense and general staff (11th Balkan Countries CHODs Conference), held in Athens. The...

Greece’s role in the stability and security in Southeast Europe and Turkey’s “nervousness” were discussed in a meeting between Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington D.C. on Monday.  Asked by journalists after the...

As Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks to fortify relations between the Greek government and it neighbors within the Balkan nations, he will be heading to Sophia, Bulgaria on Monday. The purpose of his trip is to discuss mutually beneficial ventures...