Balkan News

Recent anti-EU statements by several Serbian ministers risk turning the general public in the divided country against EU membership, experts fear.

In a country where religious identity matters, the ardently pro-Russian Bishop of Balti has become an important political figure and a thorn in the side of the pro-EU government.  

Instead of accepting unacceptable changes to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Criminal Procedure Code, the EU should acknowledge the unwillingness of the country’s political elites to adopt adequate legislation to tackle organised crime and corruption.

While Kosovo’s president wants to talk ‘border corrections’ in Brussels, the prime minister has ordered that work begin on demarcating Kosovo’s frontier with Serbia as it currently stands. 

Naser Oric’s defence in his war crimes trial questioned the credibility of a witness who said he saw the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica open fire on a Serb prisoner in 1992.

Genocide and war crimes defendant Ratko Mladic has been asked to be the honorary president of the Organisation of Military Chiefs of the Bosnian Serb Army - a move likely to offend war victims.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon is to welcome Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Chisinau expelled seven Turkish professors linked to the Gulenist movement for alleged 'terrorism-related' activities.

The trial in Tirana of notorious organised crime suspect Emiljano Shullazi and his associates was interrupted again, adding to the controversy surrounding the high-profile, politically sensitive case.

A witness at the Belgrade trial for the massacre of men from Srebrenica in the village of Kravica in 1995 said she heard Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic telling Bosniaks they could perish.

The justice minister rejected the idea of making it easier for Moldovans abroad to cast their ballots, with the ruling party seeing no electoral advantage in enabling more diaspora citizens to vote.

Luka Modric, the Real Madrid midfielder and Croatian national team captain, was named the men's footballer of the year by the sport's world governing body FIFA.

Minister’s criticism of the porn and violence shown on the country’s reality shows kickstarts fresh debate over whether TV regulatory agency is doing its job.

Bosnia may be headed for the worst of all worlds, one in which its elections are marked by widespread fraud – but where no one in the international community cares to do much about it.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will attend the grand ceremonial opening of a Hungarian-funded football academy in a mainly Hungarian village in northern Serbia.

China's main state-owned shipping company is opening a branch in Sarajevo as part of its 'One Belt, One Road' initiative.

In a political impasse, where neither the ruling or opposition blocs have sufficient votes to push through important decisions, snap elections may be the only answer.

Media reports say that weeks ahead of the elections in Bosnia, Austria's far-right Vice-Chancellor gave Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik his full support at a meeting in Vienna on Monday.

An ethnic Albanian witness told a Belgrade court how Serbian soldiers killed some of his neighbours and robbed him of his money during an attack on the Kosovo village of Zahaq/Zahac in 1999.

The first witness at the retrial of the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, who is accused of killing three Serb captives in 1992, said he saw the defendant shoot a prisoner.

If the RS prime minister wins the race to become entity president, few doubt she will continue on the same nationalist path as her mentor.