A spike in measles in the country, an infectious disease that has returned for the first time in a decade, is being blamed on a decline in children’s vaccinations.
Romania’s Attorney General sought permission on Monday to prosecute former president Ion Iliescu and former prime minister Petre Roman for crimes against humanity during the anti-communist uprising in December 1989.
Romania’s arms exports increased by 20 per cent in 2017, according to official statistics, but the country still lags behind some of its neighbours.
Former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops called on MPs to respond to their demands for benefits for unemployed veterans and a proper unified register of those who fought in the 1992-95 war.
Stjepen Mesic has said he does not wish to accept an award making him an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo – after the city controversially reneged on a move to give the award to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.
Up to 10,000 people rallied on Tuesday evening in the Macedonian capital Skopje against a possible compromise with Greece over the country’s name, arguing that changing it is not in the national interest.
Appeals in the case against Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity under a first-instance verdict, will be heard in late April.
For the first time, the EU will receive not one but two responses to a questionnaire it sent to a potential member country, highlighting the game of illusions Bosnia is playing with Brussels.
A bitterly-contested border demarcation agreement with Montenegro, which sparked months of protest in Kosovo, is now being adopted thanks to an unlikely compromise intended to help its opponents save face.
In a sign of changing political times, the Union of Democratic Forces, which was a pivotal anti-Communist force in the 1990s, has had to give up its headquarters to a rising nationalist party.
Smaller Albanian parties in Macedonia say they are willing to bolster Zoran Zaev’s government with their support but petty quarrels between them could undermine the move.
Albanian police have recorded the disappearance of more than a dozen fishermen from the coastal town of Vlora as ‘fishermen lost at sea’ – however, BIRN can reveal that most of them died trying to ship cannabis to Italy.
Wo Deutsche drauf steht, immer mit 100 % nur mit Verbrechern, als einziges System um mit kriminellen Strukturen, überall mit der Regierungs Mafia Milliarden zustehlen und Bauschrott zu organisieren. Betrug als einziges System der Entwicklungshilfe, wo Milliarden inzwischen ungehindert gestohlen werden, mit Kriminellen Partnern. Von der Leyen nutzt Bundeswehr als Ambitionsvehikel Schwule Dumm Dödel auf dem Maidan und vollkommen Völkerrechtswidrig Brain Drain: Massenauswanderung aus der Ukraine 27. Februar 2018 Florian Rötzer Poroschenko am 8. Februar bei der Würdigung der 100 „Himmlischen“. Bild: Presidential Administration of Ukraine/CC BY-SA-4.0 Die Post-Maidan-Regierung hat die Hoffnungen der Menschen nicht eingelöst, Millionen haben das Land schon verlassen, ein weiteres Drittel der Bevölkerung ist am Überlegen […]
Human rights activists staged a commemoration at Belgrade’s railway station on the 25th anniversary of the abductions of 20 train passengers by Bosnian Serb fighters in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993.
Croatian finance expert Fabris Perusko was appointed as the state’s new ‘extraordinary manager’ for debt-ridden food giant Agrokor after the previous crisis chief quit over alleged conflict of interest.
A new report argues that using the word ‘reconciliation’ does not help families of Kosovo Albanian and Serb war victims to deal with the past because it suggests that crimes should be pardoned or forgotten.
Ahead of this weekend’s Belgrade city elections, the ruling Serbian Progressive Party said it will send its activists to help people clear up snow outside their homes amid the current freezing weather.
Romania’s Anti-Discrimination Council cleared PM Viorica Dancila of offensive language charges, angering rights organisations who had complained that she used the word “autistic” as an insult.
Posters of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic have been put up at a municipality building in East Sarajevo, in what the mayor said was a gesture of support for the war crimes defendant.
Murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic named Milan Radoicic – a debt collector and truck owner close to Serbia’s ruling party - as a key figure in the intimidating system of power in northern Kosovo.
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