Balkan News

Opposition-run municipalities in Serbia say the government is putting undue pressure on them – and have asked the Congress of Local Governments of the Council of Europe to send a delegation to examine their complaints.

Two migrant children were injured when Croatian police opened fire on a van driven by people smugglers that refused to stop near the border with Bosnia.

The European Court for Human Rights has found Romania and Lithuania guilty of violating the European ban on torture for hosting secret CIA prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured. 

Despite its historic anti-Russian outlook and strong support for NATO, Romania’s relations with Moscow are not as straightforwardly hostile as they sometimes appear.

After 24 years of trying to negotiate an end to one of the most protracted international disputes, concerning Macedonia’s name, the US diplomat may finally see his efforts come to fruition.

A new law allowing Zagreb to rent out properties in Croatia that were inherited by other republics from the former Yugoslavia but left abandoned has caused concerns in Bosnia.

As Belgrade and Pristina trade accusations about the lack of progress in the investigation into Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, the slain Kosovo Serb politician’s allies say they’re being kept in the dark by both countries.

Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the President cannot stop the government from firing the country's anti-graft chief prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi.

The recent pompous police parade annoyed many Serbs because it blocked the centre of Belgrade - but they should have been more concerned about the police’s grisly past.

A defence lawyer for former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic insisted the Red Berets unit was commanded by a Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry officer when it allegedly committed war crimes, not by Belgrade’s security service.

Calls are growing for opposition leaders to quit the scene after Sunday’s local election defeat – with many calling for new faces and new policies.

State Department Report says incidents of religious discrimination occur in most countries in the region – but there is little evidence of systematic hostility.

A Kosovo artist was prevented from bringing into Serbia photographs showing Kosovo Liberation Army symbols - images that were destined for an exhibition in Belgrade aimed at promoting better Kosovo-Serbia relations.

Britain’s Prince Charles will be meeting a number of officials on his latest trip to a Balkan country the UK government eyes with approval.

In case of a final deal on the 'name' dispute with Greece, Macedonia plans to put it to a referendum in September or October, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday.

Kosovo women who took part in a ‘Wiki Edit-a-Thon’ in Pristina pledged to increase female influence on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, most of whose entries are written and edited by men.

The remains of five people have been found in a suspected mass grave near the Kosovo town of Gjakova/Djakovica, although their identity and cause of death has yet to be established.

The annual Miredita, Dobar Dan! Festival presents Kosovo Albanian films, exhibitions and theatre plays in the Serbian capital in a bid to rebuild relations between the two peoples.

A new agreement between China and Bosnia allows visa-free travel for citizens of both countries, which the Balkan state believes could boost its tourism industry.

The stability of government institutions and the country’s security, judicial and financial systems is increasingly being threatened by the destructive divisiveness of Bosnian politicians’ escalating pre-election campaigns.