Balkan News

The Bosnian state court sentenced three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a total of 16 years in prison for raping a Serb girl in Sarajevo in 1993.

Amid opposition MPs' absence and with the President still refusing to sign it, Macedonia's parliament on Thursday again ratified the landmark agreement with Greece on its name.

Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Milorad Obradovic was indicted for alleged participation in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Miska Glava near Prijedor in 1992.

A Macedonian court in a first-instance verdict on Thursday gave long jail sentences to seven men who almost killed the MP Ziadin Sela when a mob stormed parliament in April 2017.

Representatives of Serbia’s Roma community said they plan to sue the state at the European Court of Human Rights after a Belgrade court acquitted members of paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992.

After a six-year trial, the Bosnian court sentenced eight Bosniaks to a total of 60 years in prison for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilians illegally held in wartime detention camps in Hadzici.

Five Croatian citizens have been given suspended sentences for doing Nazi salutes and shouting fascist Ustasa chants during a controversial World War II commemoration in Bleiburg in Austria.

The government's plan to allow free-of-charge hospital stays for all patients in public healthcare has raised concerns that it could put more pressure on the system.

Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to block the accession of Macedonia and Albania to the EU have nothing to do with the Western Balkans, and everything to do with the European elections.

China might look like it is taking the lead in the ‘great game’ of infrastructure investment in the Balkans, but the EU’s more methodical approach will win out in the end.

Greeks opposed to the recent deal with Macedonia over its name clashed with police in the capital, Athens, and in Thessaloniki on Sunday.

Montenegro’s authorities said they will join Serbia and Kosovo in supporting the establishment of the RECOM fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars in the Balkans.

Over 20,000 people protested in the Great National Assembly Square in the Moldovan capital on Sunday, condeming the invalidation of the recent mayoral election in Chisinau.

An exchange of territories between Kosovo and Serbia as part of a final deal between Belgrade and Pristina seems an unlikely outcome, but equal rights should be agreed for Serbia’s Albanians as well as Kosovo’s Serbs.

Analysis shows many Bosnian politicians still make no use of social media to get their message across – which one expert says is a big mistake in the modern era.

In the first of a two-part series, BIRN looks at the founding 25 years ago of ‘Feral Tribune’, a magazine that fought constant battles with Croatia’s 1990s regime and remains a symbol of independent journalism.

After the Venice Commission expressed concern that some of the planned changes to Serbia’s constitution could undermine judicial independence, NGOs and judges want to be included in any further amendments – despite the government ignoring their call.

Romanian factories making clothes for British fashion brands were already struggling with dwindling profit margins, high worker turnover and competition from Asia. Then came Brexit.

Police arrested a Bosnian Serb who was crossing the border into Croatia on suspicion of ordering the inhumane treatment of prisoners at the wartime Manjaca prison camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

While most of Europe has begun phasing out coal, Balkan politicians continue to claim that building new coal plants will bring jobs in the lignite industry. Such rhetoric misleads communities and jeopardises the chances of a just energy transition.