While 2023 could represent the most difficult year yet for Hungary’s national-populist government, there is only a slim chance the opposition will be able to capitalise on this. Viktor Orban’s 13th year in power will put the prime minister’s political skills to the test, as a perfect storm looms.

Leaders in Belgrade and Pristina are perpetuating distrust by using the issue of the remaining missing persons from the Kosovo conflict for political purposes, ethnic Albanians and Serbs told researcher Nina Kaufmann. During the Kosovo conflict and its aftermath, men, women and children from all communities in Kosovo were forcibly …

Pressure is building for Serbia to strike a deal on Kosovo, but Aleksandar Vucic faces other challenges too in 2023. Russia’s war in Ukraine will continue to cast a long shadow over Serbia well into 2023. Still wrestling with the collective memory of being bombed by NATO in 1999, the …