Balkan News

Judges said that legal changes proposed by Bulgaria’s ruling parties, which would limit access to foreign funding for judges’ unions, represent an attack on their independence.

After Russia agreed to pipe gas to Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia via the Turkish Stream pipeline, US President Donald Trump in Warsaw urged Eastern Europeans to use US natural gas instead.

Research of Croatian daily media coverage showed that the issues of the country’s Serb minority are under-represented, and that they are not given the opportunity to voice their problems.

Wounded by executioners’ gunfire and left for dead by Bosnian Serb troops, Nedzad Avdic recalls how he managed to survive a mass shooting of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

The retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic near the Kosovo capital began at Pristina Basic Court.

Im Jahr 1995 wurde die erste IHH-Organisation in der Türkei gegründet. Hintergrund war der Krieg in Bosnien. Die Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation – IHH war ein eingetragener Verein mit Sitz in Frankfurt am Main und wurde im Jahr 1998 unter dem Namen „IHH – Initiative Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation“ in Köln gegründet. Vorsitzender war der Hamburger Arzt Mustafa Yoldas (Vorsitzender der Schura Hamburg und bekennendes Mitglied und Funktionär der Islamischen Gemeinschaft Milli Görüs). Am 12. Juli 2010 wurde der Verein vom Bundesministerium des Innern verboten, da er „unter dem Deckmantel der humanitären Hilfe bewusst und gezielt Organisationen unterstützt, die der Hamas zuzurechnen sind oder die ihrerseits die Hamas unterstützen“; er richte sich gegen […]

Brussels denied Belgrade media claims that the EU and US will fund a humanitarian centre in western Serbia as a response to a Russian-backed humanitarian centre in the country’s south.

A rally supporting the Bosnian Serb military commander and urging an end to ‘lies’ about the Srebrenica genocide, will be held in Banja Luka on the 22nd anniversary of the massacres.

A Serbian court has released two former State Security officers charged with participating in the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija from custody and put them under house arrest.

Izudin Alic was eight when Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic met him and other Bosniak children in Srebrenica in 1995, gave them chocolates, and falsely promised that everyone would be safe.

Experts have dismissed reports that the series of small earthquakes that have shaken the lakeside town of Ohrid are awakening a long extinct volcano.

The National Anti-Corruption Directorate, DNA, is caught between internal bickering and external attempts to discredit its work - which experts fear could undermine the fight against corruption in general. 

US President Donald Trump is attending a meeting of the 'Three Seas Initiative', led by Poland and Croatia, which is seen as designed to 'keep Russia at bay'.

Albania is marking 27 years since thousands of people fleeing communist rule took refuges in Western embassies – becoming the first to challenge the regime.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has turned down Croatia’s request to be allowed to participate in the trial of six former Bosnian Croat officials from the Herzeg-Bosna wartime statelet.

Hearings have started in Tirana in a case brought by Gjin Gjoni, an Appeals Court Judge, and his wife, Elona Caushi, who claim they suffered 'moral anguish' from BIRN reports and seek compensation.

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, a prosecution witness said Serb police robbed and killed Croats in an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.

President Milorad Dodik said Serb-dominated Republika Srpska will have no reason to remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina if the country's Constitutional Court approves state holidays not celebrated by Serbs.

Trepca ’89 may have lost their chance to enter the UEFA’s Champions League, but its players are savouring their chance to finally experience playing in European tournaments.

Milojko Nikolic, a former Serbian soldier accused of involvement in the massacre of more than 100 Kosovo Albanians during the 1999 war, has died before the end of his trial in Belgrade.