Balkan News

Parliament in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity voted to annul a report on the Srebrenica massacres that accepted that Bosnian Serb forces violated humanitarian law by killing thousands of Bosniaks.

Put off by the right turn taken by a new opposition bloc in Serbia, reports suggest more liberal-oriented opposition parties may form their own alliance - but opinion is split on whether they can challenge the ruling Progressives.

The Pristina authorities urged the EU and US to intervene after Serbia arrested a German citizen of Kosovo origin on suspected war-related charges while travelling back from his summer holiday in Kosovo.

A Moldovan-born Romanian energy industry executive arrested in Russia for allegedly spying for foreign intelligence services said that she has not been told anything yet about the charges against her.

Romania's opposition and activists called for an investigation into officials responsible for the violent intervention by security forces against protesters on August 10, while the interior minister said she was not to blame.

Syrian refugees are arriving in ever greater numbers in Bosnia. Twenty-five years ago, Bosnia’s own were going the other way.

International and domestic media watchdogs have accused the government and the opposition of sneaking in legal changes that will further curb press freedom and distort the media market in Macedonia.

The Romanian navy is preparing for its traditional parade for the Day of the Romanian Naval Forces on August 15, when Orthodox believers celebrate St Mary, patron of the country's sailors.

American and Balkan far-right politicians are cosying up, but their interests divide them as much as unite.

Analysts say recent heated rhetoric about the possibility of border changes will affect the popularity of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci - but probably not enough to unseat them.

Scores were injured in the Romanian capital Bucharest when riot police used water cannons and tear gas against anti-corruption demonstrators.

The alleged abuse of child benefit payments has been criticised by politicians from both the left and the right in Germany, with Roma from Bulgaria and Romania accused of being among the culprits

Amnesty International said it has obtained a new video that shows Cameroonian security forces with Serbian-made weapons shooting at least a dozen unarmed people in the central African country.

President Aleksandar Vucic named the head of Serbia’s commission for probing murders of journalists, Veran Matic, as his special representative for establishing the fate of Serbs missing from the Croatian war.

Thousands of Romanian expatriates rallied in Bucharest on Friday in support of the anti-corruption movement that opposes ruling party-backed legal changes to ease the fight against graft.

‘Never Leave Me’, about Syrian refugee children and orphans, is one of several films about war and its consequences in the Middle East and the Balkans that are being screened at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.

News website Juzne vesti, one of the few media outlets in southern Serbia known for critical reporting, claimed that the Tax Administration is trying to force it to close down.

Macedonian premier Zoran Zaev described his comment about the 1903 Ilinden rebellion against Ottoman rule being exclusively Macedonian as a “mistake” after Bulgarian politicians accused him of distorting history.

Romanian expatriates have been travelling to the capital Bucharest from across the country to attend a mass anti-government rally, despite controversies over the lack of an official organiser and authorisation from the municipal administration.

An attempt by the US to buy land for its new embassy in Chisinau has triggered the latest row between Moldova’s ruling party and its pro-Russian president, who refused to sanction the sale.