Balkan News

Same-sex married couples have the same rights under EU freedom of residence legislation as straight married couples, even if same-sex marriage is not allowed in the country, the European Court of Justice ruled. 

The election of academic Zoran Lutovac as head of Serbia’s beleaguered Democratic Party opens the door to a united opposition.

While Turkish and Bosnian leaders hail the growth of business relations between their countries, Turkish investors remain wary of Bosnia’s reputation for corruption and bureaucracy.

Four companies have expressed interest in building the Belene Nuclear Power Plant as Bulgarian lawmakers are expected to lift the moratorium on its construction.

A year after the country joined NATO, membership of the Western military alliance still sharply divides Montenegrins, many of whom cannot forgive the alliance for the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

An updated central national register of wartime missing persons in Bosnia is to be published soon, but the country’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska wants it to include each person’s ethnicity.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party on Monday nominated the director of the University Children’s Hospital, Zoran Radojicic, as mayor of Belgrade over more seasoned party candidates.

The Croatian War Veterans Ministry said it has identified the remains of 20 Serbs buried in collective graves after Croatia’s military operations ‘Flash’ and ‘Storm’ in 1995.

The acquittal of Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, has been quashed and he will be retried for allegedly killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in 1992.

After a series of alleged drug-related murders of Montenegrin citizens in the Serbian capital, the authorities are being urged to act more rigorously and urgently against criminal gangs.

Opposition parties from the Alliance for Change coalition in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity signed an agreement to co-operate in a bid to defeat President Milorad Dodik’s party at polls in October.

A former Serbian soldier told Belgrade Higher Court that there was no fighting in the village of Trnje in Kosovo in March 1999, when Serbian forces killed at least 27 ethnic Albanians.

President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic said she supports the holding of a referendum advocated by conservative campaigners who want to change the country's electoral law and restrict ethnic minority MPs' voting rights.

Pro-European candidate Andrei Nastase won the second-round run-off for the Chisinau mayoralty in polls seen as an important test ahead of parliamentary elections in Moldova later this year.

Kosovo MPs are to get a chance on Monday to debate the government’s official 'platform' on the EU-led dialogue with Serbia, which proposes a leading role for the President – and which some opposition parties have strongly criticised.

With the pro-Russian League in the new Italian government, pro-Russian governments in the Balkans, like Serbia’s, will be under less pressure to downplay ties to Vladimir Putin.

The award-winning documentary ‘Srbenka’ focuses on a 12-year-old Croatian Serb girl called Nina, showing how young people from ethnic minorities interpret the country’s wartime past and experience its troubled present.

Bosnia's Central Election Commission has been accused of supporting institutional discrimination, after it rejected the election candidacy application of a Bosnian Serb living in the Federation entity.

A growing number of migrants using the new Balkan route through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia to reach the EU raising concerns of a humanitarian and security crisis.

Macedonia’s opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE party called for early general elections in Skopje on Saturday at its first major anti-government rally since it was ousted from power one year ago.