Balkan News

Italian film legend Sophia Loren will be the special guest at the largest international feature film festival in Cluj, Romania, to pick up the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.

June is the last month when Albania's squabbling parties can pass judicial reforms needed to open the way for EU accession talks - and fears are growing that the deadline will be missed.

Ana Hofman, a specialist in the music of former Yugoslavia, says wartime Partisan songs can be seen as subversive in today’s context of a global capitalist crisis.

Croatian ombudsman Lora Vidovic says political pressure and the recent rejection of her report in parliament will not stop her from monitoring human rights and discrimination.

Macedonia’s ruling party leader has been ridiculed on social media after accusing his critics of performing “sect-like” rituals that involved group chanting and stamping on his party logo.

Praktisch kanditiert Irina Bokova, für den UN General Sekretär Posten, wo die Bulgarische Mafia bereits diese dubiose Frau, als UNESCO Chefin installiert und erkauft hat. Orginal aus EBRD, Finanz- Betrugs Kreisen, kommen diese Leute, der Bulgarischen Mafia. Keine 6  Monate im Amte, wurde die UN Organisation in ein Null Funktion Selbst Bedienung System umgewandelt, denn man braucht für die Wahl des neuen General Sekretärs alle Stimmen. Aber schlimmer wie der Gangster MOON kann es nicht mehr im Selbstbedienungs Laden der UN werden. Peevski Eisberg einer der dubiosten Politiker in Bulgarien: Posten Kauf bei der UN (Irina Bokova), als EU Commissar: Kristalina Georgieva WikiLeaks/Stratfor: Corruption in Bulgaria Is Part of Society […]

It is not surprising that most Serbian mainstream media either ignored or only selectively reported on a rally in which more than 10,000 marchers demanded resignations over the controversial demolitions in the Waterfront area.

Albanien als Dokumentation eines Verbrecher Staates, mit 22.000 illegalen Geldwäsche Bauten an der Küste, direkt von Edi Rama, Ilir Meta, Arben Ahmeti, Koko Kokodedhima, Edi Rama, der Mafia Bürgermeisterin von Sarande Florinje Koka, oder Vangjush Dako in Durres promotet, in der Kultur des Küsten Zerstörungs Grundstücks Raubes und Umwelt Zerstörung durch Lefter Koka Banden.   39,7 % gefährlich verschmutzte Strände in Albanien, als Nr. 2 Italien mit 1,9 % verschmutzte Strände, womit Alles gesagt ist. Eine erschreckende EU Graphik, über die Anormalität in Albanien. 39,7 % der Strände sind Lebensgefährlich verseucht und verdreckt. Wassser Qualität Europa: Strände State of bathing waters Bathing water quality Excellent water quality Good water quality […]

Several hundred locals in the west of Kosovo protested against a court ruling that confirmed the rights of the Serbian Orthodox monastery at Decani to 24 hectares of disputed land.

Families of victims from the village of Rezala accuse Serbian army chief Ljubisa Dikovic of killing 41 villagers during the war of the 1990s – and demand that Kosovo’s judicial organs investigate.

Official silence about Belgrade Waterfront demolitions - and the mystery death of one of the eyewitnesses to this event - draw some 10,000 Serbs to fresh protest rally on Wednesday.

Nationalist parties are emerging as the big winners - as tensions escalate inside the country’s fragmented ruling coalition. 

Montenegrin women's rights groups protested against a women's summit, which started in the capital, Podgorica, alleging that the controversial Serbian figure Vladimir Beba Popovic has organised it.

With his popularity boosted by his war crimes acquittal, Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj is hoping to stage a political comeback among Bosnia’s Serbs as well as in his home country.

Serbia will have a fourth mobile operator from September this year, the UK-based firm Mundio, which should cut the price of mobile calls and increase competition in the market.

After Macedonia's President flatly rejected calls to withdraw his contoversial pardons of top politicians, some experts say parliament must pronounce the pardons void on its own.

Croaia's junior government party, the Bridge of the Independent Lists, MOST, will most likely vote to impeach the vice-prime minister and HDZ leader, Tomislav Karamarko.

The former Greek finance minister has written the lyrics for one of the songs about migration that will form Albania's unusual contribution to the Venice Biennale.

As local authorities in Bulgaria sink under the weight of their debts, the government plans to offer them interest-free loans to help them recover financially.