Balkan News

The state prosecution called for former policemen Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura to be found guilty of killing three Bosniaks during an attack in the Capljina area in July 1993.

Yet another government in Kosovo has fallen before its mandate should have ended after MPs backed a no-confidence vote in the administration.

‘The Siege’, a documentary film about “survival and resistance” during wartime in besieged Sarajevo, made by French war correspondent Remy Ourdan, had its Belgrade premiere.

After nearly six months without an EU Commissioner, Bulgaria has finally named Mariya Gabriel, vice-chair of the European People’s Party, for the post.

Albanian police have arrested journalist Kastrit Myftaraj for writing on Facebook that killing the head of the EU delegation to Tirana would be 'an anti-terrorist act, not a terrorist one'.

As government readies for a decision on whether to send the Montenegrin border agreement to parliament, locals are tiring of the whole issue.

Opposition politicians and experts accuse President Hashim Thaci of attacking the EU to divert public attention from his own political failures.

The Macedonian Public Prosecution is trying to downplay the recent violence in parliament by charging the alleged attackers with the mildest possible criminal offences, observers fear.

Bosnia's deficit-crippled budgets increasingly struggle to cover social benefits and pensions, yet they still put aside millions to generously subsidise the country's numerous political parties.

The Serbian parliament is to finally choose a new chief war crimes prosecutor, after the post was left vacant for a year and a half, which experts say has damaged the fragile institution.

A Serbian court confirmed charges against five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers they abducted from a train in Strpci, Bosnia in 1993 - over two years after they were indicted.

After the former head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo said he is working on a project to unite Albanians, Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic accused him of lobbying for a ‘Greater Albania’.

Two-year-old Riku faced possible death in a village in Albania but was rescued and taken across the Balkans to a sanctuary that rehabilitates former captive bears in Belitsa, Bulgaria.

Wartime prisoners marked the Day of Camp Inmates by gathering at former detention centres to commemorate those who died and to demand better treatment for those who survived.

If a group of right-wing MPs get a positive result in Croatia’s local elections, they could withdraw their support for the government and push for early parliamentary polls, an analyst said.

Children of Serbian war veterans were given lessons in patriotism as well as basic weapons training at a ‘military-patriotic camp’ for young people in Russia.

A co-founder of the Benetton empire is bringing together 900 artists from all over the former Yugoslavia for an exhibition in Sarajevo.

A Croatian court ordered 106,000 euros in compensation to be paid to the family of Janko Cakic, a Serb civilian killed after Croatia’s military operation ‘Storm’ in August 1995.

Moldova’s President Igor Dodon sat next to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a military parade in Moscow commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. 

The Bosnian authorities need to explain what they want from their partnership with NATO, particularly on security issues and fighting violent extremism, the political adviser at the US Mission to NATO told BIRN.