Balkan News

The proposed revival of the Belene nuclear power plant project, with Russian involvement, shows again how Moscow is seeking to capture strategic sectors of Bulgaria’s economy and use them as political tools.

Macedonia is to lift the nocturnal curfew on selling alcoholic beverages in stores, which the government says failed to prevent youth drinking but hurt the local wine-producing industry.

After the Kosovo Prime Minister said they might have to take a big pay cut to save the company, workers at the embattled Kosovo Telecom firm have warned of strikes and protests.

Kosovo will not take any further part in the EU-led dialogue in Brussels with Serbia until Belgrade has fully implemented six agreements, a leaked email which BIRN has seen reveals.

Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Azra Basic’s appeal was rejected and she was jailed for 14 years for taking part in the killings, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992.

Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s lawyer told the UN court that the service had nothing to do with wartime violence in Bosnian municipalities which Serb forces took over in spring 1992.

Bulgaria's Interior Minister said the country would act on a Turkish request to probe 14 groups allegedly connected to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen – while Bosnia confirmed that a Bosnian 'Gulenist' had been arrested in Turkey.

In the latest in a series of provocative stunts, Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj pledged to seek a review of Milorad Ulemek’s conviction for the 2003 murder of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

While some political parties, bilateral relationships and even entire countries are seeing their fate going downwards, relations between others are going in a distinctly upward direction. 

As Athens and Skopje move closer towards solving their dispute over Macedonia's name, Macedonia’s Orthodox Church and Prime Minister have denied agreeing that the church should change its name as well.

People wore white ribbons at events around Bosnia to commemorate the victims of crimes against non-Serbs in the north-eastern town of Prijedor in 1992 and all those who died during the rest of the war.

Opposition-run municipalities in Serbia say the government is putting undue pressure on them – and have asked the Congress of Local Governments of the Council of Europe to send a delegation to examine their complaints.

Two migrant children were injured when Croatian police opened fire on a van driven by people smugglers that refused to stop near the border with Bosnia.

The European Court for Human Rights has found Romania and Lithuania guilty of violating the European ban on torture for hosting secret CIA prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured. 

Despite its historic anti-Russian outlook and strong support for NATO, Romania’s relations with Moscow are not as straightforwardly hostile as they sometimes appear.

After 24 years of trying to negotiate an end to one of the most protracted international disputes, concerning Macedonia’s name, the US diplomat may finally see his efforts come to fruition.

A new law allowing Zagreb to rent out properties in Croatia that were inherited by other republics from the former Yugoslavia but left abandoned has caused concerns in Bosnia.

As Belgrade and Pristina trade accusations about the lack of progress in the investigation into Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, the slain Kosovo Serb politician’s allies say they’re being kept in the dark by both countries.

Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the President cannot stop the government from firing the country's anti-graft chief prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi.

The recent pompous police parade annoyed many Serbs because it blocked the centre of Belgrade - but they should have been more concerned about the police’s grisly past.