Balkan News

A court in Osijek has begun the retrial of Serbian citizen Djordje Rkman, who is accused of committing war crimes against civilians in the eastern Croatian town of Djakovo in 1991 and 1992.

A number of initiatives are trying to help preserve the memory of Moldova’s once thriving Jewish population, decimated during the 20th century.

The failure of the traditional centrist parties to even mention future enlargement in the campaign for the European elections is only creating space for populists to make capital from this thorny issue.

For the first time, a former ruling party insider is not passively awaiting his arranged sacrifice by ‘the boss’ on the altar of Montenegro’s EU aspirations.

The governments of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania have not yet formally guaranteed the rights of British citizens living and working in the three countries in the event of a no-deal Brexit come the end of March.

The editor of the pro-government Serbian tabloid Informer, Dragan Vucicevic, has been found guilty of using hate speech against Anita Mitic, a former activist of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, an NGO.

Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ for the arrest of Zoran Stupar, one of four former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with crimes against humanity over attacks on Bosniak villages in the Vlasenica area of eastern Bosnia in 1992.

The public disagreements between Kosovo's President and Prime Minister over the tariffs imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia are undermining the country's negotiating position, an expert has warned.

Bosnia faces another difficult year as bickering ethnic leaders engage in new zero-sum games, blocking the country’s NATO path and threatening to halt the formation of new governments, or worse.

Ahead of important legislative elections due in February, Moscow’s friends among the politicians can count on the influential Orthodox Church playing a high-profile role.

Hungary under right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban is feeding funds to football clubs in ethnic Hungarian areas across the Balkan region, part of a soft-power strategy with significant returns at the ballot box.

Thousands of people again gathered in the Serbian capital on Saturday, maintaining pressure on Serbia's government and President over what they see as its authoritarian ways.

Prosecution says six people – five Syrians and a Bulgarian – engaged in illicit monetary transfers and vehicle smuggling to Syria that might be related to terrorism.

Edi Rama is being urged to withdraw two media bills that rights groups say pose a serious threat to freedom of the media and democracy in the country.

The Serbian President’s plan to introduce life prison terms without parole won’t cut the crime rate – and is gross abuse of his constitutional powers.

Macedonia’s government has pushed on with publishing a new law extending the official use of Albanian – although the President has refused to sign it, and the opposition is up in arms.

Dimitri Tsafendas became just a footnote in history after killing South Africa’s apartheid prime minister, Hendrik Verwoerd. He was dismissed as a mad man, but a new book argues he knew exactly what he was doing.

Balancing precariously between East and West, the authorities are likely to continue this high-wire act, while delaying a final solution to the perennial issue of Kosovo.

Bosnian institutions and public companies last year launched tenders to procure 1,666 official vehicles, worth about 46 million euros, data reveal.

Despite freezing winter conditions, many migrants and refugees in Bosnia are still attempting to cross from the non-EU Bosnia into EU-member Croatia.