Balkan News

A new report says that although asylum seeker numbers have tumbled in Bulgaria, the authorities still routinely detain them in 'prison-like' closed centres – and for longer periods of time.

More than 100 Serbian Orthodox Church clerics from Kosovo have issued an appeal against Kosovo's partition, insisting that the former province remains 'part of Serbia'.

A tourist who fell overboard in the Adriatic – and was left in open sea for ten hours – has thanked Croatia’s ‘wonderful’ coast guard for saving her life.

From fine food to ancient forts, stunning river gorges and mysterious Roman remains, the Djerdap National Park, a two-hour drive from Belgrade, has something for everyone.

American anthropology professor Katherine Verdery has written a new book about coming to terms with the uncomfortable discoveries in an enormous 11-volume surveillance file that the Romanian Communist secret police kept on her.

The world outside Romania is waking up to the ‘ineptocracy’ that is the Social Democrat government. But will it act before it is too late?

The government is in the process of reburying deceased Kosovo Liberation Army fighters at new memorial complexes - but while most families welcome this, there have been disagreements about where exactly some should be buried.

The electoral fraud trial of Macedonia’s ex-premier Nikola Gruevski and other ex-officials  heard tapes of wiretapped conversations that the prosecution claims shows their involvement in vote-rigging schemes.

At a meeting in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic help in implementing the rule of law and fighting against corruption.

Serbian police closed the camp run by war veterans on Mount Zlatibor that gave military training to children as young as 14, citing concerns about the possible abuse of minors.

Bosnian Serb war crimes defendants Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic welcomed the UN court’s decision to allow them to make online video calls to their families while in detention.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a grand military parade for the anniversary of the end of WWI in Belgrade in November, Serbian media report. 

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that he will visit Kosovo in early September, around the same time that a new round of Belgrade-Pristina talks on normalising relations is to take place in Brussels.

Satirist Domagoj Zovak received a death threat after airing a show about the 1995 Croatian military operation ‘Storm’, which is seen as a historic victory in the country.

For the first time, the Montenegrin town of Herceg Novi will exhibit the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Yugoslav writer Ivo Andric, in the house where he once lived.

Talk of partition or land swaps between Kosovo and Serbia has gripped the attention of many in the region this week. Are such solutions simply the most practical way to solve an old problem or the tempting siren call that could unlock the region’s Pandora’s Box?

It’s said that Belgrade is a city best understood from the water. A few hardy enthusiasts are trying to spread the word.

After the deadly bridge collapse in Italy, the authorities in some Balkan countries have begun to check the safety of some of their own transport infrastructure.

Skopje’s Criminal Court faces the task of hearing more than 1,000 unreleased wiretapped recordings as part of prosecution evidence against ex-premier Nikola Gruevski and other ex-officials accused of electoral fraud.

Bruised and battered, refugees and migrants wait for their chance in a field in northwestern Bosnia.