A Western Balkan initiative emulating the European Union’s visa-free Schengen zone aims to use the EU example to implement four fundamental economic freedoms, said Albania’s prime minister on Thursday ...

Can a plan to replicate the EU’s freedom of movement in the Balkans transform the region — or is it all about political posturing? A week before the European Union dashed the EU hopes of Albania and ...

THE COUNCIL of the European Union for Internal Affairs and Justice held a meeting in Brussels on November 20, the first since the November 13 attacks. There, the Netherlands refuted the news published ...

The cabinet is looking at the option of developing a smaller open border area made up of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria, the Telegraaf says on Wednesday. This ‘mini-Schengen ...

A Montenegrin minister dismissed the idea of joining a Balkan version of the European Schengen Area which would see barriers to free trade and travel lifted between Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held a virtual meeting Thursday with the prime ministers of North Macedonia and Albania ahead of a summit next week on a ‘mini Schengen’ initiative for a joint ...

Dragan Stojsin has toiled for more than a decade with his eyes fixed firmly beyond the borders that arose after the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The middle-aged patriarch of a family-run ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government has debated internally and with its allies a plan to introduce passport checks at the borders of several Western European countries in a bid to control an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The leaders of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia have hit out at Brussels over the slow pace of EU ...

Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem warned Friday that a small group of EU countries may be forced to form a "mini-Schengen" if the bloc fails to resolve its migrant crisis. "I really don't wish to ...