Balkan News

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party has been hosting Veselin Sljivancanin, who was convicted by the Hague Tribunal of responsibility for the 1991 Vukovar massacre, as a speaker at party events.

President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic said that able-bodied men, rather than women and children who really need help, had made their way to Europe from the Middle East.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg's visit to Bosnia in February is unlikely to result in major progress towards membership of the alliance, an expert has predicted, blaming political disarray in the country.

The Bosnian Serb leader may be bluffing when he talks about holding a ‘historic’ referendum this year – but either way, he is pushing the country towards ever-greater instability.

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, warns that Slovenia’s proposed new Aliens Act will likely cause an unwelcome 'domino effect' along the Balkan refugee route.

The Gulf states have turned into a dream destination for many young Albanians whose career paths were blocked back home.

The Bulgarian volleyball team YEB Shumen 05 has made history by attracting the first-ever Iranian female player, Maedeh Borhani Esfahani, to play for a team outside Iran.

Twenty-two opposition parties have signed a memorandum listing the use of an electronic voter verification system as a key condition of taking part in the June general election.

Miladin Suvajdzic, a former member of the so-called Zemun Clan, testified in court that that one of the crime gang’s leaders “confessed” to killing Serbian opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija in 1999.

Serbian opposition politicians and experts have condemned Belgrade’s decision to send a train covered in nationalist slogans and pictures to Kosovo as unnecessarily provocative.

The former director of the Health Insurance Institute of Sarajevo Canton faces a lawsuit after spending more than 20,000 euros on a conference in the US that never took place.  

In response to Jasmin Mujanovic’s comment article, ‘New Partitions are the Last Thing the Balkans Need,’ Timothy Less maintains that the Balkan countries lack even the most basic elements needed to make multi-ethnicity work, so it is time to consider a new territorial settlement.

Former police chief Milenko Zelenbaba, a Serbian citizen, was charged with committing war crimes against Croat villagers near the southern town of Knin in 1992.

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has filed an indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Remiz Shala, accusing him of abducting an ethnic Albanian civilian suspected of collaborating with Serbia.

The Bosnian who sent Melania Trump specially made shoes will not be able to attend her husband Donald's inauguration after all - after being denied a US visa.

Opposition parties in Serbia can only win the upcoming presidential election if they unite behind a joint candidate, experts say – but whether they can agree on one candidate to be seen.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Kosovo PM: „Train will not enter sovereign Kosovo territory“ Serbia PM: „Albanains play war games“ A Serbian train was departed today from Belgrade towards Kosovo, planing to enter Mitrovica, with the words “Kosovo is Serbia” written on it, which Serbia does not consider a provocation. Kosovo PM, Isa Mustafa: „Kosovo will not tolerate provocations“ The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, held an extraordinary press release. He greeted the stopping of the train from entering Kosovo, and said that Serbia’s effort was an unprecedented provocation.

Jetzt berichten Albanische Medien, über die Einmischung der Vandalen NGO’s, EU, aus Berlin finanziert im Auftrage von Georg Soros in Mazedonien. Speziell hier der Hirnlose und korrupte Edi Rama, der die schlechteste Regierung aller Zeit in Tirana anführt und eine Drogen Export Steigerung von 400 % erreichte mit seinem Partner Ilir Meta. Manipulation der gekauften Verbrecher von Georg Soros in Mazedonien. Wo Georg Soros Leute auftreten, herrscht Weltweit Chaos und Korruption wie Betrug und Mord, rund um Privatisierungen. Manipulimi/ Rama si lojtar i Soros në zgjedhjet e Maqedonisë dhe Zaevi si “rojtar” skeme 14 Janar, 2017 0 Në 6 janar mediat në Tiranë trumbetuan me të madhe arritjen e marrëveshjes […]

Aleksandar Vucic has accused Kosovo of sending special forces to attack the first train to run in many years from Belgrade to the northern, Serb-run part of Kosovo, claiming the Kosovars planned 'a conflict of broad proportions'.