Balkan News

Serbia’s prime minister designate Aleksandar Vucic blamed Britain and Croatia for the EU’s delay in opening important negotiations with Belgrade on two chapters of European legislation.

Kosovo opposition MPs visited a border village close to Montenegro on Friday as the controversy over the border demarcation deal with Montenegro refuses to go away.

A Bulgarian judge said that a Bulgarian court five years ago refused to extradite the suspected brains behind the terrorist attack at Istanbul airport to Russia because he had obtained refugee status in Austria.

Croatian policeman Josip Reihl Kir, who was killed in 1991 in Osijek after trying to negotiate peace with local Serbs, is being commemorated as a symbol of peace in “times of madness”.

The newly-announced results of Bosnia's 2013 census highlight a dramatic overall fall in the population, as well as drastic changes in the ethnic composition of major cities.

Convicted war criminal Fikret Abdic, the former head of a separatist statelet, will run for mayor of the Velika Kladusa municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina in local elections in October.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration said it would resume hearings on the dispute over territorial waters between Croatia and Slovenia - even though Croatia has pulled out of the process.

Judoka Champion Majlinda Kelmendi is hoping for a medal at Rio where she will represent Kosovo in the country’s first-ever Olympic Games.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met Bosnia's tripartite presidency and offered Berlin's help amidst growing signs that Bosnia's path to EU remains blocked.

With another blistering summer already heating up, escaping to one of Serbia’s aqua parks is a great way to cool down.

A group of young Albanians from Korca have been volunteering in Greece - helping refugees whose plight stirs memories of what their own country experienced in its troubled past. 

Opposition in Montenegro demands hearing with top security officials after popular resort of Kotor is on "lockdown" following deadly gang violence.

The Serbian government-funded construction of a housing settlement for Serb refugees in northern Kosovo has angered Kosovo officials, who claim it is an attempt to extend Belgrade’s political influence.

Macedonia’s main parties have either ignored or condemned the decision of a small ethnic Serbian party to sign a declaration in Moscow advocating a 'neutral zone' in the Balkans.

The government is under growing pressure to undertake painful staffing of around 4500 people and pricing reforms in Serbia’s Electric Power Industry, EPS.

The appeals chamber at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to 22 years in prison each.

Belgrade’s premier exhibition hall and its neighbouring four-star hotel are tangled up in one of the world’s biggest ever banking frauds, BIRN has learned.

Croatia has suddenly erected a fence on a bridge on the border with Serbia, reportedly to block the entry of illegal migrants and the activities of people-smugglers.

The final results of the 2013 census of Bosnia, published on Thursday, reveal the changed demographic picture of the country - but Bosnian Serb officials continued to dispute them.

The Kosovo authorities have promised to set up a commission to verify the claims of rape victims from the 1998-99 war soon, but human rights campaigners accused them of acting too slowly.