Balkan News

The Romanian parliament voted to adopt a law on money-laundering, months after the European Commission referred the country to the European Court for not complying with EU legislation on the issue.

Political clashes and controversies risk delaying the formation of parliaments and governments at Bosnia’s various levels of power.

New Zealand-born Wade Goddard’s new book captures the raw suffering of the Kosovo conflict - but the veteran Balkan war photographer also tried to find courage and hope amid the bloodshed.

Pro-choice politicians and activists have criticised anti-abortion movement members for gathering to pray outside hospitals, as Croatian lawmakers prepare to rewrite abortion legislation.

Former Bosnian Army Fifth Corps commander Atif Dudakovic and 16 subordinates are accused of wartime crimes including over 300 murders and the destruction of Serb Orthodox churches.

Several migrants and refugees were injured when they tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina’s border crossing with Croatia.

The Serbian Defence Ministry has published a book by the former Yugoslav Army chief of staff Nebojsa Pavkovic, who is currently serving a prison sentence for war crimes in Kosovo.

A report published by the European Commission on World Polio Day sheds light on the low levels of trust in most immunisations among Bulgarians, despite their high vaccination rates.

Romania’s biggest cybersecurity company, Bitdefender, announced that it has finalised the purchase of Dutch network security analytics startup RedSocks. 

A former Bosnian Serb policeman told a Belgrade court that he saw a truck loaded with dead bodies in the village of Kravice, where Bosniaks from Srebrenica were massacred in 1995.

The border crossing between Bosnia and Croatia was closed after a couple of hundred migrants and refugees trying to get into the EU country blocked the main road.

Montenegro and Croatia are considering whether to follow Germany’s lead and suspend arms exports to Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, but other Balkan states have been silent so far.

With a growing number of Bosnians packing their bags, a Facebook group aims to ease the process and encourage others to follow.

A few weeks before Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court is to rule on legal changes that could affect the Pirin National Park, environmental activists began a campaign aimed at maintaining public resistance.

After its favoured candidate for the Bosnian tripartite presidency was defeated at the polls, Croatia’s ruling HDZ has launched a campaign of disinformation aimed at manipulating the Bosnian political situation for its own advantage.

The Serbian government’s Commission for Missing Persons said that the remains of 15 Serbs who were killed in the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 have been exhumed.

Croatian police said false information that the EU country would open its borders led to hundreds of migrants and refugees gathering at border crossings in Serbia and Bosnia, hoping to enter Croatia.

Scientists have announced the discovery of what they described as “the oldest intact shipwreck” on the bottom of the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria.

Former paramilitary Stevan Budac, accused of wartime crimes against Croat and ethnic Hungarian civilians in eastern Croatia, pleaded not guilty as his retrial started in the city of Osijek.

A parliamentary commission gave the first nod to legislation to close down betting shops and electronic casinos across the country, despite pressure from Albania’s powerful gambling industry.