Balkan News

Refugee children are being welcomed into local schools in the cities Sarajevo and Mostar – but in other parts of Bosnia, the authorities appear much more reluctant to let this process get underway.  

The integration of the courts in the north into the Kosovo judicial system has failed to resolve the problem of delayed trials and stalled cases – and may have made it worse, experts fear.

A new report on the mass resignation of Serbian members from the Kosovo Security Force blames the Serbian government and accuses it of 'brutal interference' in a Kosovo institution.

Three Chinese companies have announced they are pulling out from the planned construction of a thermal power plant in Bosnia, after Federation entity lawmakers failed to approve it in time.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Vuk Ratkovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for the repeated rape of a woman in Visegrad during the war in 1992 and 1993.

The Bosnian state court said that media reporting on criminal proceedings should be legally regulated because of what it described as unprofessional, unjust and prejudiced coverage, particularly of war crimes cases.

Macedonia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected an initiative to call off the September 30 referendum filed by various opponents of the Greece-Macedonia agreement.

US lawmaker Christopher Coons tabled a Senate resolution calling on Russia to order its troops to leave Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.

Under nationalist pressure, Bulgaria's government looks set to oppose any move to deprive Hungary of its voting rights in the EU, due to fears of democratic backsliding.

Former soldier Ilija Vukasinovic was awarded over 3,500 euros for the mental distress he suffered during 199 days of house arrest before he was cleared of committing crimes against humanity.

Slovenian right-winger Roman Leljak will promote his book and film denying academic research-based data on the Jasenovac World War II concentration camp at Catholic church venues across Croatia.

The main battle at the forthcoming ‘name’ referendum in Macedonia has shifted from the result of the plebiscite to the struggle to get a high enough turnout so the vote becomes legally valid.

Environmental activists say that schemes obliging Serbia to renew more electricity from renewable sources have benefited a few privileged contractors – and are wrecking the natural habitat.

Statistics suggest a growing number of Bosnians are packing their bags and leaving for the West, seeing little future for themselves or their children in the stagnant Balkan country.

For the people of Gagauzia, a poor, autonomous region in Europe’s poorest state, the future feels like a foreign land.

The long-awaited adoption of amendments to Bosnia’s Criminal Procedure Code should improve the country’s record on prosecuting corruption, but not all legal experts are convinced.

Belgrade and Beijing agreed on a $3 billion package of economic investments and military purchases which will boost China’s growing influence in Serbia.

Protesters demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice in Sofia against the arrest of two reporters who were detained last week in Bulgaria while investigating alleged fraud involving EU funds.

Destructive Creation, an art collective famous for painting the Soviet Army monument in Sofia, struck again in the heart of Strasbourg in a protest against controversial new EU copyright legislation.

The new government led by the maverick politician Marjan Sarec is unlikely to undertake major foreign policy initiatives, regional experts say.