Political Risk
Bosnia-Herzegovina
BMI View: The political crisis in the Muslim-Croat Federation will worsen after Prime Minister Nermin Niksic and seven other ministers from his party walked out of the government. Party...
2013-03-28Romania
The EU has further delayed a decision on whether Romania should be admitted to the EU's Schengen area of borderless travel, after a March 7 meeting of home-affairs ministers from the...
2013-03-15Albania
The Albanian government has been criticised by the EU Commission for planning to push forward its bid to become a member of the EU via a referendum. Stafan Fule, the EU commissioner...
2013-03-15Bulgaria
On March 10, a third Bulgarian man died from self-immolation amid continuing protests against poverty and corruption. The act triggered street demonstrations in major Bulgarian cities,...
2013-03-15Slovenia
BMI View: The government is on the verge of collapse after the ruling coalition disbanded over a corruption scandal. A new government formed around opposition candidate Alenka Bratusek...
2013-02-25Croatia
Croatia is on track to accede to the EU on July 1 the Foreign Affairs committee said in a vote on February 19. MEP's stressed their confidence in the strength and the maturity of the...
2013-02-22Macedonia
The political deadlock in Macedonia's legislature threatens to severely undermine the Balkan country's prospects of EU accession. The impasse, which could see the opposition Social...
2013-02-20Bulgaria
On February 18, Bulgaria urged European governments to take a harder stance towards Hezbollah, after blaming the Lebanese Islamist movement for a bus bombing that killed five Israelis...
2013-02-19
