Balkan News

People celebrated in Kosovo as the national team drew against Finland, securing a point in a World Cup qualifier at the country’s first-ever competitive international football match.

Six former Bosnian Serb soldiers and military policemen were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity against over 60 Bosniaks, including children, in the Milici municipality in 1992.

Montenegro’s authorities were urged to stop the continuing violence in the resort of Kotor after a bomb blast killed two men in the latest suspected showdown between rival drug clans.

A local nightclub entrepreneur is hoping to export Belgrade’s famous nightlife culture around the world.

While official figures show unemployment in Serbia to be at its lowest point since 2009, the ‘in-work’ figure includes many working part-time or only informally.

The sister of Cedo Colovic, a former wartime fighter who has Croatian and Serbian citizenship and was arrested in Serbia for alleged espionage, said his family has been told nothing about his case.

Despite marked differences over membership of NATO, three centre-left opposition parties have formed a coalition to take on veteran leader Milo Djukanovic in October's election.

Publication of a Turkish black list, naming several agencies, schools and companies in Macedonia as ‘Gulenist’, has left members of those organisations deeply worried.

Despite international criticism and a lack of support from Serbia, the leadership of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska is continuing preparations to hold a controversial referendum, officials said.

US lawyer David Schwendiman has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the new Hague-based Special Court which is expected to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

Amid heightened regional tensions, prosecutors from Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro met to show commitment to achieving justice for war crimes victims, the Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor said.

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The trial of ten former Yugoslav Army troops for a massacre of 118 Kosovo Albanian villagers in 1999 was postponed a second time after witnesses from Kosovo did not appear in court.

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Croatia’s early parliamentary elections will most likely deliver a similar result to those held last November - with a grand left-right coalition ‘highly unlikely’, experts say.

The increased nationalist rhetoric in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia is a ploy by some politicians to win votes at upcoming elections and by others to distract from economic problems, experts argue.

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New survey blames high rate of people working in hidden economy in Balkan region on mistrust in state institutions - and unfair tax systems that penalise those on low incomes.

Podgorica is to commit itself to the new anti-terror measures of the Council of Europe, designed to combat radicalism and fighting abroad.

The prosecution office in charge of investigations says its competencies are in limbo because of the incomplete state of judicial reform in Albania.