Balkan News

After controlling most air traffic over Kosovo since 2014, Hungary is to remain in charge of this for ‘an indefinite period’ after April, when the current five-year agreement expires, NATO has confirmed.

Protesters in Croatia on Wednesday denounced the detention of a man who daubed a communist symbol on a monument to Croatia's first president as 'political repression'.

In its closing statement, former Serb reservist policeman Slavko Milovanovic’s defence called on the court to acquit him of persecuting Bosniak civilians in the Skelani area near Srebrenica in 1992.

The Bosnian government's discussion of exploring outer space has drawn much mockery on social media from critics who point out that Bosnia does not yet even control its own airspace.

Rows between the Kosovo government's coalition partners on the import tax on Serbian and Bosnian products imperil the government's survival, the speaker of parliament has warned.

Belgrade Higher Court ordered a medical examination of a Serbian ex-commander on trial for the murders of Kosovo Albanian civilians in Trnje in 1999 after several hearings were postponed due to the defendants’ health issues.

Joining a pan-Balkan arthouse film jury proved a transformative experience for youngsters brought up to think of their peers in other former Yugoslav countries as strangers and enemies.

A EU decision on removing arbitration clauses from bilateral treaties could force several energy companies to drop their pricey claims against Bulgaria.

Serbia's president says Belgrade has honoured the commitments it has made so far in negotiations with Kosovo, but a closer look reveals the results are mixed, at best.

The European Court of Human Rights dismissed a lawsuit against Croatia filed by footballer Josip Simunic, who claimed he was wrongly fined for chanting a slogan associated with the WWII fascist Ustasa movement at an international match.

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said that in order to rescind his country’s controversial tariffs on Serbian goods, Pristina wants a final, comprehensive agreement with Belgrade about Kosovo’s status.

The social media giant will employ 150 people in Sofia who will check for potentially violating material in Russian, Turkish, Georgian and Kazakh languages.

The watchdog organisation Transparency International's latest annual report on perceived corruption around the world has given the Balkan countries low scores.

Romania’s mismanagement of its coalmines highlights its inability to deal with its energy system’s fundamental problems.

As Croatia heads towards presidential elections in December, Katarina Peovic of the Workers Front says the race will be very unequal – but her anti-capitalist message needs to be heard.

Families of people who disappeared in Orahovac/Rahovec during the Kosovo war hope that Sabahajdin Cena, a former guerrilla commander recently questioned by prosecutors from The Hague, could reveal vital information despite denying any involvement in kidnappings.

Some 20,000 civil servants from across Kosovo have threatened to join teachers, surgeons and medical inspectors in the largest public-sector strike that the country has ever seen.

Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Ranko Babic, Bratislav Bilbija and Djuro Adamovic will stand trial for the torture, abuse and murder of Bosniak civilians in the village of Ljeskare near Prijedor in August 1992.

The Serbian war crimes prosecution asked for a total of 59 years in prison for eight Serb ex-fighters accused of killing Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991.

Most opposition MPs in Serbia's parliament boycotted Monday’s session in response to the continuing wave of street protests against the government, casting a shadow over the visit of the President of Slovenia.