No Balkan country is free of political turbulence but the turmoil in Pristina is particularly worrying

In scenes reminiscent of Istanbul in 2013 and Kiev in 2013-14, hundreds of demonstrators have pitched tents on the main square of Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, in round-the-clock protests against a government they revile and want to bring down. http://w

Like the great powers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the EU faces an Eastern Question.

It took seven years after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia for Besim Aaliti to conclude that Europe’s newest state no longer offered him a future. So Mr Aaliti, a bricklayer from the Kosovan village of Strubulovo, travelled through Serbia and Hungary to reach Germany, where he applied for asylum earlier this month. He is one of tens of thousands who have left Kosovo in recent months, prompting fears in some European capitals that a mass exodus of migrants from one of the continent’s poorest countries could strain public services in destination countries and trigger a politic