Balkan News

NATO has decided to start implementing Bosnia's long-stalled Membership Action Plan, MAP, and has called on Bosnia to submit an Annual National Program.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s defence asked the US government to provide any transcripts it has of intercepted conversations about the violence in Srebrenica in July 1995.

Former Bosnian Serb Army unit commander Dragoljub Kunarac, who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal for multiple rapes, was charged by the Sarajevo prosecution with murder, torture and abuse in Foca in 1992.

Former Bosnian Army general Ramiz Drekovic was arrested in Sarajevo on suspicion of committing a war crime by ordering the ‘indiscrimate’ shelling of the Serb-majority town of Kalinovik in 1995.

Kosovo's opposition Social Democratic Party, PSD, appears to be cosying up to the government, after criticising other opposition parties’ approach to the dialogue with Serbia.

Macedonian police on Tuesday arrested former secret police chief Vladimir Atanasovski, after he was named in court as a suspected organiser of the attack on parliament in April 2017.

Right-wingers inside and outside the ruling Croatian Democratic Union are looking for a strong leader, but analysts believe that it won’t be the HDZ’s former leader Tomislav Karamarko, who recently announced his political comeback.

Spills of oil waste from the wells of Albania’s state-owned company Albpetrol pollute the Vjosa River, an environmental crime that activists warn threatens its ecosystem, considered by scientists an oasis of biodiversity.

Political analyst Nenad Markovic told BIRN that that the only beneficiary of ex-premier Nikola Gruevski’s escape from justice in Macedonia was himself, while the image of his opposition VMRO DPMNE party was damaged.

A company with ties to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party has purchased two television stations with national frequencies after selling its own cable operator to the state-owned telecommunications company.

Players and officials from the Serbian basketball club Partizan who wanted to support protests by Kosovo Serbs were turned away at the border by Kosovo police.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Cvijan Tomanic was charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly killing an ethnic Albanian civilian in the Zvornik area in 1992.

Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milan Todovic was sentenced to ten years in prison for raping and sexually enslaving a Bosniak woman who he held captive in an apartment in Foca in 1992 and 1993.

The Kosovo opposition demanded the resignation of the prime minister and his deputy after a European commissioner said that visa liberalisation with the EU is unlikely to happen until 2020.

Alex Younger, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, said that his first intelligence job was penetrating an organisation “intent on genocide” in the Balkans in the mid-1990s.

A growing number of Turks are setting up business in Montenegro, leaving behind political and economic instability.

Tomas Bocek, the Representative of the Council of Europe’s Secretary General on Migration and Refugees, says both Bosnia and Croatia are coping better now than before with the refugee influx.

The former UK prime minister's institute is seeking to hire a senior advisor for a Belgrade posting, to 'work closely and advise' top officials on governance issues.

Both ruling and opposition parties are using the dispute over the centenary of unification with Serbia to distract the public from bigger problems.

The junior ethnic Albanian partner party in Macedonia's government has relaunched its demand for an inter-party consensus on the election of a new president in spring.