Balkan News

Despite a host of fresh faces in the cabinet, not everyone is persuaded that Montenegro's new government under Dusko Markovic will be that different from the old one.

Albanian Prime Minister Raises Chameria Issue Again By Philip Chrysopoulos – Nov 29, 2016  Greek Reporter edirama-thumb-large-thumb-large-3-thumb-largeAlbanian Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke again about the Chameria issue and Cham Albanians, while at the same time he expressed his optimism about his country’s accession to the European Union. Rama spoke to Deutsche Welle on Monday saying that “We are talking about an issue that concerns a part of the Albanian population, which must be treated like the rest of the Albanian population in relation to the Greek State. This part of the population should be recognized and have the right to move freely in Greece. Rightly they feel they are subject […]

Ukrainian Oligarch Firtash, Tied to Former Trump Campaign Manager, Faces Spanish Warrant Published: Friday, 25 November 2016 16:39 A court in the Spanish city of Barcelona issued an international warrant on Friday for the arrest of Dmitry Firtash, an exiled Ukrainian oligarch allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin and tied to US president-elect Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, media reports said.         Dmitry Firtash (Photo: V.Diegtiar CC BY-SA 4.0) Spanish law enforcement accuse Firtash and two other men of being at the center of a scheme to launder millions of dollars in the country via companies in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, Spanish newspaper El Pais said, […]

Journalists across the Western Balkans face a hostile environment that impedes their ability to report in a critical fashion, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

Russia’s Foreign Minister will be seeking to clarify Moscow’s increasingly complex relations with Serbia on his upcoming visit to Belgrade, explains Bosko Jaksic, a Belgrade-based foreign policy expert.

Bakir Izetbegovic, leader of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and chair of the Bosnian Presidency, is facing a growing challenge from restive dissenters in the ranks.

The prosecution in the genocide and war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will begin its closing statements at the Hague Tribunal on December 5.

22 Nov 16 Bank of China Set to Start Serbia Operation Bank of China will receive a full licence to start operating at the beginning of 2017 in Serbia – the first Balkan country to host one of the world’s largest banks. Danilo Hinic BIRN Belgrade Jorgovanka Tabakovic, governor of the Central Bank of Serbia. Photo: Media Centre Belgrade After getting a preliminary license last week, Bank of China is set to start operating in the country in early 2017, the Central Bank of Serbia said on Monday. Serbia will be first Balkan country to host what is the world’s fifth largest bank by total assets. Jorgovanka Tabakovic, the governor of […]

Tensions are growing ahead of local elections in Drenica, the birthplace of Kosovo’s revolution, as the ruling Democratic Party fights to keep power in its stronghold.

Montenegrin police arrested Miroslav Jovic, a Serb convicted in absentia in Croatia of committing war crimes against Croats during the conflict in the country in 1991, media reported.

The Hague Tribunal has made public an international arrest warrant for three Serbian Radical Party politicians wanted for witness intimidation, calling on UN member states to detain them if possible.

Defence ministry employees have been accused of being responsible for criminal negligence that cost the state a million euros in the latest in a series of charges raised by prosecutors against officials and ministers.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s endorsement of the ruling VMRO DPMNE party before the upcoming elections horrified freedom-seeking Macedonians and contradicted the EU’s democratic values.

Davor Bernardic, the new leader of the main opposition Social Democratic Party, has promised a more left-wing agenda, but analysts say the party isn’t likely to veer off its moderate course.

Montenegro’s government will give a mainly Albanian-populated area long-sought municipal status among other concessions after ethnic Albanian politicians helped the ruling party gain a parliamentary majority.

Croatian women struggle to exercise their right to abortion, driven into the shadows and illegality by the rise of a hostile conservatism.

Romania vowed to continue supporting Moldova on its path to EU integration even though the newly-elected Eurosceptic Moldovan president criticised Bucharest’s interference in his country’s affairs.

The lawyer for Sami Lushtaku, a former guerrilla commander who is now mayor of Skenderaj/Srbica, filed a complaint to Kosovo’s Supreme Court against his conviction for war crimes.

Die Banken Mafia, welche die Politik finanziert hat ca. 1,5 Billiarden $ darauf gewettet, das Griechenland nicht Bankrott geht, sondern alle Kredite bedient. Das ist der Hauptgrund, warum Griechenland mit dem kriminellen Murks des IMF, Weltbank der US-EU Banken nicht neu geordnet werden kann. Ganz Vorneweg die komplett korrupten der Deutschen Regierung mit ihren vielen Betrugs- Privatisierungs Geschäften von Telkom, Merck, Siemens und Co. Also geht das Mafiöse Theater in allen Bereichen weiter. Kriegszustand in Notaufnahmen der Krankenhäuser in Griechenland 29. November 2016 / Aufrufe: 1 Keine Kommentare In den Notfallstationen vieler öffentlicher Krankenhäuser in Griechenland herrschen drittweltliche Zustände. Einer Untersuchung des Panhellenischen Verbands des Personals der öffentlichen Krankenhäuser (POEDIN) […]

Serbian interior minister Nebojsa Stefanovic asked a Belgrade court to order news magazine NIN to pay compensation over an article saying he should take the blame for controversial demolitions in the city’s Savamala district.