Balkan News

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence asked for the removal of three judges from his appeal against conviction, alleging they are biased because of their previous rulings in Srebrenica genocide cases.

Members of a conservative citizens' initiative, ‘The People Decide’ who have been collecting signatures seeking a referendum on changes to election law, on Wednesday submitted their petition to parliament.

The UN court in The Hague decided to transfer to Belgrade the case against two Serbian Radical Party officials who are charged with contempt of court in the trial of their leader Vojislav Seselj.

Former Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Tomislav Kovac, charged with genocide for controlling police forces involved in the mass executions of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, did not appear in court for his plea hearing.

The body representing Serbia’s Albanian minority denied asking to include Hillary Clinton’s autobiography in Albanian pupils’ curriculum after a Serbian minister expressed fury about Bill Clinton’s role in bombing Yugoslavia.

While world leaders greet the agreement between Macedonia and Greece over Macedonia's name, both governments are facing bitter criticism from their political opponents back home.

If Austria closes its border with Slovenia to migrants, there will be a domino effect and Bosnia will have to close its own borders with Serbia and Montenegro, an official has warned.

Spanish accreditation company says its certificates – which a Bosnian company used to sell ‘safe’ football goals to schools in Sarajevo – appear forged.

The pro-Western authorities in Moldova long to reduce their dependence on Russian natural gas – but finding alternatives has proved harder than expected.

Medical workers who served with UN peacekeeping troops in Bosnia recalled painful memories of war and joy at seeing peace as they returned to join a Canadian veterans’ bike ride through the country.

Possessions belonging to migrants who have come from or to Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic are being exhibited to shed light on personal experiences of moving countries.

A Ukrainian security service raid on a Romanian cultural centre in the country's Northern Bukovina region has sparked new tensions with Bucharest over Romanian minority rights.

A pro-Serbian opposition party in Montenegro said that the Cyrillic script is under threat, and demanded that it have an equal status to the Latin script in the country’s schools.

Skopje and Athens announced they can resolve their long and bitter dispute by agreeing on the composite name ‘Republic of North Macedonia’ for Macedonia - a deal expected to unlock Skopje’s EU and NATO bids.

Heightened fuel prices, which triggered mass protests by citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina, could be reduced in part of the country in the next few days.

A witness quit the landmark trial at a Belgrade court of Bosnian Serb ex-policemen accused of the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, saying he received threats despite his identity being protected.

The main private television stations in Albania proposed a law that would see them sharing in several million euros of television-set taxes which currently go to the public broadcaster.

Two former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers went on trial in Sarajevo on genocide charges, accused of killing men from Srebrenica, raping women and robbing Bosniaks of money and gold in July 1995.

A Belgrade court decided for a second time to throw out evidence allegedly placing former Serbian state security officers at the scene of the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija.

Marking the 19th anniversary of the end of the war, when NATO troops entered Kosovo, a monument commemorating soldiers from the Western alliance who died while serving was installed in Pristina.