Whether it’s the Lotto, betting shops or gambling dens, Serbians are up for a gamble in increasing numbers and despite, or perhaps because of, the economic crisis, business is better than ever.

Albania’s parliament has extended the country’s moratorium on the use of speedboats along its coast for another three years. The moratorium is part of an effort to thwart illegal smuggling.

An international competition to manage Arena Zagreb has attracted only one local company.

Trencherman checks out this Celebrity Haunt.

Tim Judah, the Economist's Balkan's Correspondent, and regular Balkan Insight contributor, has fully updated one of the seminal works on the modern history of Serbia, bringing the narrative through to the present day.

Slobodan Trkulja is one of  Serbia’s hottest export items and his compositions and arrangements of traditional Serbian music have been widely praised.