Balkan News

While all other leaders of Balkan states have offered congratulations on the historic ‘name’ deal between Macedonia and Greece, Serbian officials have so far remained publicly silent.

While the Croatian national team's first match victory at the World Cup thrilled much of the public, some fans are boycotting the games to show their continued anger over corruption in the Croatian Football Federation.

Archaeologists from Albania and Poland say a ‘huge’ city uncovered beneath a grassy hill near Shkodra could be the city of Bassania that the Roman historian Livy once described.

The European Commission said it would keep a neutral position over Slovenia's decision to refer Croatia to the Court of Justice of the European Union over its disrespect for a court ruling on their sea border.

Bulgarian leader Boyko Borissov has said the EU needs to toughen its stance on migration, as his country prepares to pass the EU presidency to Austria – which has designated the fight against "illegal migration" its priority.

Winning the upcoming election on June 24 may be a tougher challenge than President Erdogan expected; either way, it will be a watershed event for the deeply divided country.

Macedonian police used tear gas and shock grenades to disperse protesters against the deal with Greece on the country's name on Sunday night in Skopje, after some tried to break through the police cordon and storm the parliament.

In the first of a two-part series, BIRN reports on how Dinko Sakic, the last living commander of Croatia’s World War II concentration camp Jasenovac, was tracked down in Argentina and extradited 20 years ago.

The future of Croatia Airlines hangs in the balance as the government seeks a new strategic partner, finances remain fragile – while unions demand more respect for workers’ rights.

Although not an EU member state, Montenegro wants a status agreement with the EU border control agency Frontex, to held curb migration, as the issue climbs again up the agenda.

Balkan watchers say Serbia and Kosovo will be under more pressure to resolve their dispute now that Greece and Macedonia have terminated their own decades-long disagreement.

Macedonian and Greek ministers on Sunday signed a landmark agreement aimed at finally resolving their decades-long dispute - which Macedonia's PM said had 'turned an enemy into a friend'.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, who went missing earlier this week, has been found "alive and well", and appeared not to have been kidnapped.

Media in Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria are highly diverse but suffer from polarisation, financial dependence on oligarchs and and high levels of public mistrust, a survey by the Reuters Institute says.

Many members of the ruling Social Democratic Party are itching to suspend Romania's President over his refusal to fire the country's anti-graft chief prosecutor – but some advise caution.

Former Serbian reservist Darko Tasic is accused of robbery and destruction of property in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusa in March 1999, and of burning victims’ bodies and throwing them in a river.

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Dinamo Zagreb, who was convicted of fraud by a Croatian court, has refused to extradite himself voluntarily from Bosnia.

The Yugoslav People’s Army was used to achieve the Serbian leadership’s nationalist goals during the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia, according to a report from the Humanitarian Law Centre watchdog group.

While the European Commission says ageing Croatia must make tough decisions about its current pension system, unions representing pensioners oppose the recommended reforms as harmful.

In a move seen as marking an end to its two-year boycott of parliament, the country’s strongest opposition alliance has presented a plan to deal with the country’s crisis – which it is taking to Brussels.