Balkan News

A Catholic church in Bacau, eastern Romania, was overcrowded on Sunday, when members of the small ethnic Hungarian Csango community attended their first Hungarian-language mass in decades. 

The parents of 21-year-old David Dragicevic, whose death last March has sparked ongoing protests, want to exhume his body from Bosnia and moved to Austria, saying he should not lie in a 'mafia state'.

Lithuania last year sounded the alarm over where a popular Russian taxi app is sending user data, but Serbia was unperturbed. Now the office of Serbia’s personal data commissioner says it will investigate.

Bosnia asked Sweden to take over the case against Serb ex-soldier Sinisa Milojcic, who is accused of rape and other wartime crimes, but Swedish law says he can’t be prosecuted now because he was under 21 at the time of the offence.

Russia's Sberbank, which owns 39.2 per cent of the troubled Croatian food and retail company Agrokor, plans to take 'scrupulous approach to selecting a buyer', it has told BIRN.

Slobodan Petrovic tells BIRN that Serbia is using its security agencies to intimidate rivals of the main Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb political party.

As Serbian protesters marched again on Saturday in anti-government protests in Belgrade, supporting rallies in other towns and cities across the country are gaining strength.

A new report on how EU countries deal with the legacy of the Holocaust says that Croatia has one of the worst problems with historical revisionism and the downplaying of World War II crimes.

An historic agreement to change the name of Macedonia has brought to an end a decades-long dispute, but stirred nationalist anger in the process.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Sylejman Selimi, who was convicted of war crimes for torturing a civilian prisoner at a KLA detention site, was released on probation.

NATO and EU leaders have applauded Greece's parliament for approving the historic agreement with neighbouring Macedonia, following days of heated debate and clashes in the streets.

A deep-rooted code of honour made Albania one of the few places where Jews could hope to survive the Holocaust.

Montenegro’s ruling party, 30 years in power, has been hit by illegal financing claims by a now-fugitive businessman.

Officials warn that the pay demands of teachers, surgeons, municipal staff and others could bankrupt Kosovo – but some experts say the Prime Minister has set a disastrous example.

Progress towards concluding the Macedonia-Greece dispute has been down to the Macedonians themselves and the US and far less the EU, which nevertheless seems keen to claim the credit.

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Bosnia's inernational overseer, the Office of the High Representative, OHR, has slated a Bosniak move to dispute the name of Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity as 'irresponsible'.

Bosnia's state court has charged Munib Ahmetspahic with joining the Islamist terrorist group Al-Nusra Front – and with participating in combat in Syria from 2013 to 2018.

Nazif Mehmeti, a former commander with the Kosovo Liberation Army’s military police force, was interviewed for two days as a war crimes suspect by the Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office.

The high import tax that Kosovo has imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia has been good news for exporters from Albania and Macedonia, data show.