Balkan News

  The American Spectator has explored how George Soros and his Open Society Foundation staged a friendly takeover — friendly because the U.S. Government was a willing target — of U.S. foreign policy institutions in the Balkans from Skopje, Macedonia to Tirana, Albania to Athens, Greece. Deliberate Political Dysfunction? Instead of offering dispassionate advice, like an influential older brother eager to see a younger sibling mature, the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo regularly hectors the country’s leaders and citizens; promotes new rights for sexual minorities while chastising constitutionally-recognized minorities for running (constitutionally-recognized) schools; and plays a dangerous game of favoritism, advancing the Muslim community over Croatians and Serbs, to the detriment […]

The authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska have allocated more than 10,000 euros this year to support Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, who are on trial in The Hague.

Under EU pressure - and to avoid heavy fines - the Bulgarian government is moving to remove barriers against the acquisition of agricultural land by foreign citizens.

One year on from the failed military coup, Turkey is a land both transformed – and divided.

The ninth Prishtina International Film Festival opened in the Kosovo capital with a premiere of 'Unwanted' - a film that deals head on with the highly senstive issue of the rape of Kosovo women during the war.

As Macedonia and Bulgaria ready to sign a historic friendship treaty, opponents of the deal in both countries are accusing their governments of betraying vital national interests.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is using his colourful and daring fashion sense to send a distinct message about modern Albania to Europe, experts believe.

Turizmi shqiptar, dështim spektakolar 9:01 – 09/07/2017 KRYESORE 0 Turizmi është cilësuar si sektori që mund të shpëtojë ekonominë shqiptare. Më 362 km vijë bregdetare dhe me plazhet që cilësohen si konkuruese të forta të Greqisë, Kroacisë dhe Malit të Zi, vendi ynë duhet të ishte në krye të listës për turistët e huaj në rajon. Reklama në mediat e huaja për plazhet shqiptare nuk kanë munguar. Po ashtu nuk kanë munguar dhe promovimet e qeverisë në çdo aktivitet ndërkombëtar. Në të vertetë ka një ndryshim të madh mes asaj që institucionet paraqesin në panaire dhe asaj ç’ka gjen një turist i huaj apo edhe vet një qytetar shqiptar kur […]

Deutschland ist Magnet mit diesen von der Politik installierten Kriminellen, welche seit Jahrzehnten randalieren, zerstören, straffrei sind, und immer mehr Kriminelle kommen aus dem Ausland, bei diesen Paradiesischen Zuständen, wo Richter die Verbrecher freilassen. Kriminelle Gruppierungen und Clans, dürfen bei diesen Innenministern, einem seit 20 Jahren korrumpierten und inkompetenden Verfassungsschutz, Straffrei machen was sie wollen. Und in Eigentum befindliche SPD-Grünen Mafia NGO’s, Betreuungs Stellen erhalten neue Millionen, die Hofschranzen Mafia der AntiFA, Correktiv mit dem korrupten Bodo Hombach usw., Politische Stiftungen brauchen mehr Geld** In Hamburg war SPD Innensenator Andy Croteverantwortlich, der wie es vor allem in der Mafiösen Klientel Politik der SPD üblich ist, sich mit Ralf Jäger NRW, […]

200.000 unerledigte Justiz Fälle im Kosovo, bei Milliarden Kosten der EU Justiz Missionen, was mit Korruption der EU Banden und in Berlin nicht mehr erklärbar ist. Statt Politik: Erpressung und Betrug überall von Serbien, Mazedonien, Albanien, Kosovo SZ-Magazin.deaus Heft 34/2007 Wir kamen, sahen und versagten Courts in Kosovo with over 200 thousand unresolved cases By Elton Tota / Published on: 27-06-2017, 10:21 The large number of unsolved cases in the courts of Kosovo continues to be a problem, that the judicial system is not being able to overcome for years now.Competent authorities say that there are over 200 thousand old cases, which are still unsolved and the majority of them […]

Stephen KARGANOVIC | 07.07.2017 | WORLD «War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portugese Peacekeeper (I) General Carlos Martins Branco is one of the most fascinating (and until quite recently also inaccessible) actors in the Srebrenica controversy. From his Zagreb vantage point as deputy head of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) between 1994 and 1996, during the latter phase of the 1990s Yugoslav conflict as it unfolded in Croatia and Bosnian and Herzegovina, this Portuguese officer had privileged access to significant information. Confidential reports about the goings on in the field were crossing his desk. With first-hand information and further enlightened by discrete conversations with colleagues from various […]

Weakening EU and US influence in the Balkans and increased Russian influence, as well as growing political and economic pressures on journalists, have created a harsher environment for Balkan media, BIRN’s biennial meeting heard.

Zu blöde und korrupt, wie in Hamburg gerade beim G-20 Gipfel gegen Berufs Kriminelle der AntiFA (SPD finanziert) vorzugehen, kommen schon wieder Hirnlose PR Pläne. Berufs Kriminelle, wie AMRI, werden von Richtern und Ralf Jäger (SPD) freigelassen, oder wenn man einen angeblichen Wohnsitz in einem Flüchtlingsheim hat, mit der Identität NR: 10 und 11. Wirtschaftsraum für Verbrecher Banden, Drogen Barone, Schleuser Banden Chef mit ihren Politik Mentoren, was ganz Oben anfängt, wo die Banden sich heute schon eingekauft haben, oft Ehepartner von SP udn Grünen Prominenz. Wenn man keinen Balkan Wirtschaftsraum, noch die Zoll Union je umgesetzt hat, wird es diesmal auch Nichts, weil inzwichen gehört auch Kroatien zur EU, […]

The home of Dragana Peco, award winning Serbia’s investigative reporter, has been broken into, with her belongings turned over, but no valuables reported missing.

Our selection of articles this week looks at Turkey’s growing drift away from the West, the rough seas in which Romania has suddenly found itself, how Bosnia’s left can be saved from drowning and much more. 

Without a thorough overhaul the Serb Democratic Party, SDS, faces further internal divisions and an uncertain political future, experts say.

Serbia’s robust tech sector is being assisted by schemes to encourage entrepreneurial endeavours - but some students still have to learn to take chances and join IT start-ups rather than seeking traditional jobs.

Twelve Bosnian Serbs convicted of genocide have served their sentences and been released - some have returned to live in places where the massacres happened, while others continue to deny that Srebrenica was genocide.

Croatia should remember its own bitter war of the 90s and open its borders to refugees, says Tvrtko Barun, a Jesuit priest who was recently honoured by the European Parliament.

Bosnia's Constitutional Court intervention over election laws could push the country into chaos and anarchy.