Balkan News

As 2017 draws to an end, we bring you this year’s most read articles.

President Hashim Thaci signed a decree to pardon three former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas convicted of killing a family in 2001 in revenge because one of them served with the Serbian police.

After a failed attempt to revoke the law that allows the new Hague-based Specialist Chambers to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, MPs who backed the initiative vowed not to give up.

The Pristina Basic Court has released Vetevendosje MPs Albin Kurti and Donika Kadaj Bujupi who had been detained on charges of letting off tear gas in parliament.

Despite outside perceptions of Romania as a booming country, a new survey has revealed a deep pessimism among people about about their future, their government and politics.

Bosnia's Federation entity looks likely to start 2018 without a budget as a result of chronic disputes between the ruling parties in the mainly Bosniak and Croat entity.

Former Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Tomislav Kovac was charged with controlling all the police forces involved in the mass executions of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.

President Hashim Thaci is believed to be considering giving a pardon to three former Kosovo guerrillas convicted of killing a family in revenge for their links with the Serbian police.

Bosniaks alleged to a Croatian news magazine that in 1993-94, they were forced to work in a Mostar-based factory that was managed by Dragan Covic, who is now the Bosnian presidency’s Croat representative.

Known as one of the easiest places in Europe to find a good time any season, it should be no surprise there is no shortage of places to party in Belgrade as the New Year approaches.

A growing chorus of voices say Croatia’s public broadcaster HRT is succumbing to political pressure and becoming an echo chamber for the government – just as it was in the 1990s.

Authorities in Bosnia are determined make sure the growing number of people renting out their apartments for the day register the business and pay tax on the profits.

The deputy mayor of Pristina's call to build a mosque on the campus of Pristina University has sparked adverse reactions in Kosovo, while the municipality says it does not back the idea.

The ousting of Nikola Gruevski’s regime in 2017 brought new hope for those who felt they were unjustly tried for terrorism in several murky, high-profile court cases that troubled inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia.

A suggestion that Romania may follow America in moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem has dismayed Palestinians.

MP Daut Haradinaj, a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter and brother of the prime minister, said that arrests by the new Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers would cause a major backlash.

Fourteen Bosniak ex-fighters were charged with crimes against humanity for the killings, torture, abuse, illegal detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians from the Konjic area in 1992 and 1993.

Moldova's Pro-Russian President, Igor Dodlon, has sparked a fresh political crisis after rejecting all the names of candidates for a government reshuffle following his return from Moscow.

A banner in memory of Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelic, who died 58 years ago, was found hanging on a kindergarten fence in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

More than 100 workers from a troubled oil refinery arrived in the capital to stage a protest at the Ministry of Energy, demanding that the authorities intervene to resolve their problems with unpaid wages.