Balkan News

Koha Group, publisher of one of the most popular Kosovo dailies, Koha Ditore, announced it will stop covering President Hashim Thaci after he stated that the paper is working for Serbia’s leader Aleksandar Vucic.

Macedonia’s right-wing opposition has increased in popularity amid the ongoing, emotionally-charged debate about the forthcoming referendum on changing the country’s name, a survey suggests.

Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska is preparing to adopt a law declaring Cyrillic script must be used by all officials and public institutions, but Bosniaks and Croats argue that the plan is unconstitutional.

Serbia has invited Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova to attend the annual Guca brass band festival, known for being one of the wildest parties in the Balkan region.

Kosovo’s Basketball Federation accused the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina of delaying the issuing of visas for its Under-16 youth basketball team, potentially thwarting its participation in a European tournament.

The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body, GRECO, urged Macedonia to boost its efforts to curb corruption among MPs, judges and prosecutors, saying that progress so far has been disappointing.

In the absence of international consensus, a growing number of European states are taking up the fight for justice in Syria in their own courts, drawing on the witness testimony of those who fled.

Romanians are returning home from several EU countries to attend an anti-government protest on Friday sparked by anger about the relaxation of the fight against corruption and alleged official incompetence.

Serbia has been laying the foundations for Kosovo’s partition for years. But experts say the risks are enormous.

If former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are now senior political officials are indicted by the new Hague-based war crimes court, the crucial Pristina-Belgrade negotiations could be seriously disrupted as they enter a critical stage.

There are only a few statues of women in the streets and parks of the Croatian capital, where the overwhelming majority of the people commemorated by sculptues and street names are male.

President Hashim Thaci said that a ‘correction’ of Kosovo’s border with southern Serbia, not partition of the country along ethnic lines, will be a factor in Pristina’s final deal on normalising relations with Belgrade.

Total dependence on Russian natural gas and electrical energy from breakaway Transnistria has caused the current Moldovan Government to take action during its final months in power.

A Romanian cabinet move to cut the spending of the country’s presidential administration and intelligence service and fund a huge Orthodox cathedral has boosted political tensions in Bucharest.

The Haludovo resort on the Croatian island of Krk was ‘open to everyone’, but this stunning example of Yugoslav modernism went the way of the country that built it.  

Partition of Kosovo or adjusting borders between Kosovo and Serbia would destabilise the region and potentially spark violence, argues a former adviser to the US State Department.

A team of Romanian and German archaeologists has unearthed an 80-hectare prehistoric city in western Romania which they have described as a ‘Troy of the Carpathians’.

More than 30 NGOs from both Kosovo and Serbia sent an open letter to the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, urging her to make an unambiguous statement against the division of Kosovo.

The annual publication of Bulgarian politicians’ property and interests declarations showed only a modest rise in earnings among most officials – but a few pocketed enormous sums.

A former Serb policeman was indicted for allegedly taking part in killing of two people - one of them with disabilities - and for forcing ethnic Albanian civilians out of a village in 1998 during the war in Kosovo.