Balkan News

During the Croatian Interior Minister’s visit to Washington, US officials said Croatia’s planned gas terminal on the island of Krk enjoy's America's 'full support'.

Attacks on journalists, discrimination against minorities, poor protection of refugees and lack of political will to prosecute war crimes remain problems in most Balkan countries in 2017, Human Rights Watch's World Report 2018 said.

A police officer told a Kosovo court that he saw Moshe Harelm, the main suspect in the Medicus organ-trafficking case, in 2008 at Pristina airport.

Two former Yugoslav Army officers from the 549th Brigade told a court in Belgrade that they knew nothing about the attack on the village of Trnje in Kosovo in March 1999, when 27 Albanians were killed.

A last-minute political breakthrough means that Bosnian farmers may finally be able to access badly needed EU funds for agriculture.

It seem unlikely that a country known mainly for poverty, corruption and a shaky respect for the rule of law can provide Europe, or the Western Balkans, with much guidance during its six-month presidency. 

With Croatia announcing new laws on regulating hate speech, incitement to violence and fake news online, some experts fear it may lead to censorship and limit freedom of expression.

Following fresh talks between Macedonia and Greece in New York on Wednesday, UN mediator Matthew Nimetz said he was 'hopeful' that a solution to the 27-year-long dispute is in reach.

Following the brutal slaying of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, analysts from both Serbia and Kosovo fear for the future of the EU-led dialogue, which was already in trouble.

Er war wohl den Super Schmuggler und Verbrecher Kartellen der Serben im Wege, welche direkte Geschäfte auch mit der Politik Mafia in Phristina machen. Uralte Kämpfe der Verbrecher Clans in der Region, weswegen es auch zum Kosovo Krieg kam, wo die Albaner viele Albaner ermordeten, was mit Ahmet Krasniqi begann ein Start Schuss, der Terroristen und Mord Abteilung rund um Hashim Thaci, Ramuz und Daut Haradinaj. Es ging immer um die Kontrolle des Kosovo und Nichts Anderes. Deutschland und die USA lieferten mit der Clinton Mafia (Partner der US Mafia Nr. 1 Gambino) nur Schlagworte und die NATO verzierte das mit Lügen. Serbenführer im Kosovo getötet : Tod in der […]

Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov on Wednesday vetoed a new government-backed law that extends the official use of Albanian across the country.

Romanian Social Democrat MEP Viorica Dancila is set to become Romania’s first woman prime minister. 

Kosovo police said that they have identified the origin of the vehicle allegedly used by the killers of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, and are reviewing security camera footage.

A second bid to start the process of revoking the law that allows a new Hague-based war crimes court for Kosovo to operate failed on Wednesday.

After a series of debates and repeated promises, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Wednesday that he received a proposal to begin building the country’s second passenger airport near the coastal city of Vlora “by this summer".

Serbia, the Kosovo Albanians and the international factors in Kosovo, such as the EU, all bear responsibility for creating the conditions that led to this shocking assassination.

Not quite a promising start to 2018 in the Western Balkans: The year's dawn saw three deaths from a curable disease followed by the assassination of a prominent politician in Northern Kosovo.

Former senior KLA officials told the trial of Deputy Prime Minister Fatmir Limaj that they knew nothing of the fate of two civilians – allegedly executed as collaborators with the Serbian regime in 1998.

A court in Split has acquitted a Catholic priest of charges of disturbing public order, after he defended Croatia's wartime Fascist state in a sermon.

Bosnia and Slovenia are probing a large loan that former Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa's party received from an obscure businesswomen in Bosnia.