Balkan News

Journalists in Serbia say censorship – and self-censorship – has become rife under an all-powerful president.

Parliament in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity voted to annul a report on the Srebrenica massacres that accepted that Bosnian Serb forces violated humanitarian law by killing thousands of Bosniaks.

Put off by the right turn taken by a new opposition bloc in Serbia, reports suggest more liberal-oriented opposition parties may form their own alliance - but opinion is split on whether they can challenge the ruling Progressives.

The Pristina authorities urged the EU and US to intervene after Serbia arrested a German citizen of Kosovo origin on suspected war-related charges while travelling back from his summer holiday in Kosovo.

A Moldovan-born Romanian energy industry executive arrested in Russia for allegedly spying for foreign intelligence services said that she has not been told anything yet about the charges against her.

Romania's opposition and activists called for an investigation into officials responsible for the violent intervention by security forces against protesters on August 10, while the interior minister said she was not to blame.

Syrian refugees are arriving in ever greater numbers in Bosnia. Twenty-five years ago, Bosnia’s own were going the other way.

International and domestic media watchdogs have accused the government and the opposition of sneaking in legal changes that will further curb press freedom and distort the media market in Macedonia.

The Romanian navy is preparing for its traditional parade for the Day of the Romanian Naval Forces on August 15, when Orthodox believers celebrate St Mary, patron of the country's sailors.

Prominent Serbian human rights activist Natasa Kandic said that recent proposals for partitioning Kosovo mean that Belgrade is accepting the reality of its former province’s independence.

American and Balkan far-right politicians are cosying up, but their interests divide them as much as unite.

Analysts say recent heated rhetoric about the possibility of border changes will affect the popularity of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci - but probably not enough to unseat them.

Montenegro’s prospects of joining the European Union and illegal migration are expected to be on the table at Dusko Markovic’s first meeting as premier with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Threats, big words and empty promises – it’s election season in Bosnia. But does it really have to be like this?

The upcoming visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has caused an argument between Bosnian Serb politicians, with both the president and a leading opposition figure claiming that they invited him.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon took some of his Socialist Party MPs on a pilgrimage to Russian monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece.

Scores of people have filed complaints against the Romanian Gendarmerie and prosecutors have launched a probe of the military security force’s violent intervention against anti-corruption protesters.

The craft beer craze has reached Chisinau, and three Moldovan men behind a young brewery say the sky’s the limit.

Rada Trajkovic says any solution right now will only destabilise the region and set back other countries.

Dozens of Turkish citizens have requested asylum in Kosovo, scared by the sudden deportation of six of their countrymen over a failed 2016 coup.