Balkan News

Amid a growing trend towards historical revisionism in the country, Croatian television and newspapers offer airtime and space to right-wingers who downplay the crimes committed by the World War II fascist Ustasa regime.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has struggled with an influx of migrants and refugees in 2018, but official data shows that there is a low rate of offending among those attempting to transit the country on the way to the EU.

As Belgrade prepares to file a report to the Council of Europe's anti-graft monitoring body, experts questioned whether European recommendations on tackling corruption and political influence on the judiciary have been implemented.

The founding documents of a prominent Catholic lobby group in Croatia show how Polish anti-abortion pressure groups are taking their fight beyond borders.

At least 20 people, including the head of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, have been held for allegedly taking part in a corrupt scheme to provide documents that enable the granting of Bulgarian citizenship.

The remains of three people, believed to be Serbs who were killed in the village of Vozuca in 1995, have been exhumed on Mount Ozren in the Zavidovici municipality in central Bosnia.

Serbia’s Appeals Court confirmed the indictment of five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers abducted from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993 - over three years after the prosecution charged them.

With internal cracks widened by a recent humiliating defeat at the polls, the Serb Democratic Party, SDS, has decided to hold new internal elections.

Belgrade officials condemned the Podgorica authorities for banning celebrations of the centenary of the unification of Serbia and Montenegro in 1918.

A Greek man died in a shootout with police special forces after opening fire on a police patrol during celebrations of a Greek national holiday in a village in southern Albania.

Serbia’s arts and culture scene is up in arms over the firing of Zeljko Hubac from the National Theatre, seeing an intolerance of dissent spread from politics to culture.

Even though Montenegro is a secular, multi-ethnic state, arguments about the use of religious symbols still simmer and people still join political parties that only represent one ethnic or religious group.

After disagreements with the EU, Moldova’s ruling Democratic Party has adopted a more populist-nationalist stance ahead of elections in February – and could even resort to a post-poll alliance with pro-Russian forces.

The Macedonian parliament this week starts the second phase of the constitutional changes procedure needed for the implementation of the 'name' agreement with Greece.

Kosovo police are investigating the discovery of an explosive device in the garden of a member of the Kosovo Security Force in Serb-run North Mitrovica. 

Albania's Minister of Interior Fatmir Xhafaj resigned from the post on Saturday morning, with Prime Minister Edi Rama announcing shortly after that he had nominated his security advisor for the position.

Albania's opposition is demanding an investigation of alleged vote-buying by ruling party supporters at the 2017 elections after a police probe into drug-trafficking revealed information about possible wrongdoing.

Tonco Rajic, a former member of the Croatian Defence Forces, was sentenced to two years in prison for mistreating a civilian prisoner at Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in August 1992.

Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been told to report to prison on November 8 the latest, to serve his two-year jail sentence for the illicit purchase of a luxury Mercedes.

Two police officers were killed in a shooting incident in Sarajevo after they confronted a group of people who were attempting to steal a car.