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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the police and international security forces in Kosovo to provide journalists with better protection and to safeguard the right to information in the north of the country, where at least four media crews have been attacked by unidentified individuals since mid-November amid heightened political tension between Kosovo and neighbouring Serbia.

Although respect for press freedom is a condition for accession to the European Union, it is not on the programme of the summit between EU member states and the six Western Balkans countries – Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia – being held on 6 October in Slovenia. However, none of these countries has made any significant progress as regards

Emerging Europe this week Central Europe Romania-based Black Sea Oil and Gas will begin extracting natural gas from its 600 million US dollars offshore Romanian project in November, its chief executive Mark Beacom said on Tuesday, but added further progress hinged on scrapping a disputed tax. The additional tax on offshore projects is the last remnant of a series of price caps, taxes and export restrictions introduced two years ago by a previous centre-left government. The changes, most of which have since been reversed, blindsided gas producers, which have spent over a decade and billions of...

Kosovo Investigative journalist Visar Duriqi was left with a broken nose and teeth following an assault by three masked men on 25 February. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) joined their affiliate in Kosovo, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK), in condemning the brutal attack.