Balkan News

Croatia’s Defence Minister Damir Krsticevic offered his resignation over criticism that the military didn’t react quickly enough to tackle huge wildfires, but the prime minister refused to accept it or blame the army.

Escape the baking heat and explore some of Serbia’s beautiful rivers by attending one of several summer regattas - either in the countryside or in the capital.

The state prosecutor is investigating Milorad Dodik, leader of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, for saying that Bosniaks returning to their pre-war homes are ‘occupying’ eastern Bosnia.

With two outdated planes and a lack of manpower and firefighting equipment, the blazes that have erupted across Montenegro have shown up the weakness of the country's emergency response system.

Hundreds of forest fires in Montenegro and Croatia continued to rage overnight, spreading rapidly towards towns and cities along both countries' coastlines.

After years of delay, the assembly of the capital of Kosovo looks set to give the go-ahead to the construction of a new 'Central Mosque' - despite the objections of civil society groups.

As a Japanese embassy opened on Monday in Tirana, Albanian experts expressed hope that closer ties to the Asian economic superpower would now develop. 

An online petition has called for the European Parliament to sanction Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki for stirring up anti-Roma hatred. 

The investigation into the April 27 rampage in Macedonia's parliament, which injured 10 MPs, has traced some of the masked assailants, sources close to the investigation say.

Wild forest fires burning across the Croatian and Montenegrin coast from the weekend spread to the edge of bigger cities on Monday, forcing some inhabitants to flee their homes.

Bosnian presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic has called on Bosnian institutions to protect the country's Muslim clerics - after ISIS recently issued bloodcurdling new threats to them.

A Serbian tour guide company has called off its ’Gypsy Tour’ of Belgrade after being accused of promoting racism.

The Montenegrin authorities have vowed to remove a controversial monument to Punisa Racic - the Serb nationalist MP who assassinated Croatian leader Stjepan Radic in the Yugoslav parliament in 1928.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Despite repeated announcements of the imminent privatisation of Serbia's 50 or spas, legal disputes over ownership of the assets is delaying the whole process.

An online campaign seeks to raise enough money to bring home the bodies of Afghan migrants who died in a car crash on a Bulgarian highway on June 4.

As Kosovo's political parties jostle for the right to form the next government, the country's ethnic Serbian MPS have yet to decide which coalition or party to support.

Ethnic Albanian villagers accused of planting a mine that killed two NATO soldiers in Macedonia in 2003 hope that the Special Prosecution will drop all charges.

As the number of Macedonian citizens taking summer holidays in southern Albania grows, Macedonian police are to be deployed for the first time in the coastal resort of Saranda. 

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