Balkan News

The EU's rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has become officially operative again after the law extending its mandate was published in Kosovo's official gazette - allowing high-profile trials to resume.

Pro-Russian nationalists clashed with anti-Putin protesters before the arrival of the Russian bikers, the Night Wolves, in the city of Burgas.

The Hague Tribunal is to deliver its final verdict on former senior Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, who were previously convicted of persecuting non-Serbs.

Call by the leader of the opposition Democratic Party for Serbia to join NATO divides the public – and raises questions about his motives.

Moves by the outgoing government to amend the law on sports are dismissed by critics as an attempt to save the discredited management of the Croatian Football Federation.

Bosnia's State Statistical Agency said it will release the complete results of the 2013 census on Thursday, despite continued opposition from the Republika Srpska.

Senior US and EU envoys are expected to launch a diplomatic offensive in Macedonia in early July, aimed at hammering out a new deal on resolving the country's deep political crisis.

A Kosovo court has jailed a Serbian citizen, Slobodan Gavric, who was arrested in Pristina with a vehicle packed with explosive material in an area near the US embassy.

The local assembly in the Serb-majority town of Prijedor in north-western Bosnia failed to back an initiative to build a memorial to 102 children who were killed or are still missing from the war.

A parliamentary comission has found that Vice Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko was in conflict of interest over relations with a lobbyist for the Hungarian energy company MOL.

A Russian company has invested 13 millions of euros in an aqua park on the Montenegrin coast - a project that failed twice before, leaving the local authorities in Budva with big debts.

The approval of a one-year budget for the specialist chambers brings the Hague-based war-crimes court one step closer to operation.

Days before the start of the Great and Holy Council in Crete, aimed at uniting the world's Orthodox Christians, rows between the various churches have escalated - and several churches will not now be coming.

The trial in Belgrade of Novak Djukic - convicted earlier in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on Tuzla in Bosnia - is on hold after the Bosnian court failed to provide Serbia with the requested case material.

New privatisations, better banking regulations and reductions in public expenditure are some of the IMF's key requirements of Bosnia, IMF representative Francisco Parodi said.

Ahead of the Chinese President's visit to Belgrade, some economists question whether Serbia stands to benefit much from its current economic cooperation with China.

The special prosecution for organized crime will probe allegations that ruling party committed electoral fraud in the run-up to the October elections - if an opposition motion secures a majority of votes.

With early elections becoming ever more likely, the leftist opposition expects to profit from voters' anger about the current muddle in the governing coalition.

The government has ordered an evaluation of the damage done to official buildings and monuments as a result of protesters' paint balls - further annoying the protesters themselves.

If UK voters opt to quit the EU on June 23, which recent polls suggest they might, the negative effects will be felt as far away as Belgrade and Tirana.