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.

Western Balkan countries increased employment by roughly 300,000 jobs between 2010 and 2016. However, this rate of job creation is not enough to address the many challenges in the Western Balkan labor ...

Faced with the global COVID-19 pandemic, for the second year in a row, Western Balkan countries did not give any priority to freedom of information. Although few countries declared states of ...

Heterogeneous Turkey shows influences from the Middle East, Mediterranean, the Balkan peninsula, and Central Asia, but it’s much more than its clichéd image of where East meets West.