Balkan News

Croatia's new Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic, paid his first official foreign visit to neighbouring Bosnia hoping to calm political tensions over the status of Croats in the country.

Hildigund Neubert, a former commissioner for East German 'Stasi' files in Thuringen, says it is high time that Albania bit the bullet and opened up its Communist-era secret police files.

With only a few percentage points' difference between the two frontrunners, Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of GERB, and Rumen Radev, nominated by the Socialist Party, the Bulgarian presidential contest is hard to call.

The former chief of a police task force investigating the 1999 murder of an opposition journalist told a Belgrade court that his probe concluded that State Security was involved in the killing.

Former military security officer Ekrem Ibracevic was sentenced to three years in prison for committing crimes against Serb civilian detainees in the Srebrenik area in the summer of 1992.

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution filed an war crimes indictment against former guerrilla commander turned MP Fatmir Limaj over the murder of two Kosovo Albanian civilians in October 1998.

The recent dramas in Serbia over Kosovo should not fool anyone; for Vucic, the ‘southern province’ issue is just a tool in a non-stop election campaign.

Claudio Roth, handelt mit Drogen im Bundestag, was Alles über diese Hofschranzen sagt noch deutlicher wird General Günzel über die Verbrecher der Lüge, die sich heute Politiker nennen. Geschichte gefälscht,Rechtsbeugung, Menschen und Firmen ruiniert Moldawien wird wohl die Verbrecher der Westlichen Wertgemeinschaft zum Teufel jagen Die Republik Moldau am Scheideweg Am Sonntag wird in der Republik Moldau ein neuer Präsident gewählt – nach anderthalb Jahrzehnten wieder direkt vom Volk. Vom Ergebnis hängt es ab, ob die Ex-Sowjetrepublik auf Europa-Kurs bleibt. Montenegro Super Gangster Dukanovic, wurde aus optischen Gründen von den EU, US, NATO Verbrechern gezwungen nicht mehr als Ministerpräsident anzutreten. Dafür wird es ein Ex-Geheimdienst Chef, was die grössten Ratten […]

MPs in Pristina approved a resolution defining the Kosovo Liberation Army’s wartime struggle as just and fair after a debate sparked by the war crimes convictions of ten former KLA fighters.

The Republika Srpska has given the nod to a million-euro Saudi Arabian grant aimed at rebuilding 55 homes for post-war returnees to the eastern town of Srebrenica.

New Croatian Science and Education Minister Pavo Barisic praised a WWII Nazi-allied Ustasa official, calling him “a tragic hero and a victim”, in a scientific paper he wrote in 1992, media reported.

The appeals court in Belgrade acquitted Serb former volunteer fighter Miodrag Zivkovic of taking part in raping two women in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina in 1992.

The Bosnia-born DJ now rocking the music scene in Berlin and beyond pays tribute to the Gypsy sounds - and Balkan ‘broken hearts’ - that inspire him.

New tax-cutting measures are welcomed but not likely alone to restore growth rates to pre-2008 levels, experts say.

Albanian PM Edi Rama has started an active exchange of opinions and jokes with ordinary citizens on social networks - including live chats - which experts see as a smart election tactic.

A motion to Macedonia's Constitutional Court, contesting the legality of the December 11 elections due to the uneven size of the electoral districts, could jeopardise the snap polls.

Krasimir Kanev, president of Bulgaria's Helsinki Committee, said Thursday's assault on him in Sofia was almost certainly linked to his work, to growing intolerance, and to the refusal of officialdom to deal with hate crimes.

Serbian opposition MPs questioned Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday over sclaims that several people were arrested for planning illegal activities in Montenegro.

Crime reporter Jovo Martinovic has gone on trial in Montenegro, accused of participating in a drug trafficking ring.

The Western alliance has taken a significant step towards upping defensive capacities along its entire eastern flank amid growing concerns about Russia.