Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week zooms in on countries where the future of democracy seems to be hanging in the balance, or where crucial elections are approaching.

The colossal demonstration in Belgrade at the weekend showed that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s familiar tactics to undermine protest movements and put off change are no longer working.

American President Donald Trump shook the world by announcing that, starting April 5, he will impose a basic tariff of 10 percent on all imports to the U.S. and even higher tariffs for some of the ...

"Today, I'm gonna do something I've never done before. I'm gonna rank all 54 countries in Africa, starting from my favourite all the way down to my least favourite," he says. He continues by ...

All of this points to one grim conclusion: the listed Balkan countries — from which Montenegro can certainly not be excluded — are being simultaneously designated as future mining colonies and ...

Given the risks in Western Balkan energy policies and political ... being the most engaged external actor, as all countries except Kosovo either are EU members or hold candidate status for EU ...