Balkan News

Former police officers Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djukic were charged with committing crimes against humanity for allegedly persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in the town of Teslic in 1992.

In his last state of the union address, the European Commission chief said that if the EU does not unite to shape the destiny of the Western Balkans, 'others' will step in and do so instead. 

Convicted war criminal Tomislav Mercep has been allowed to spend more than a month out of prison recuperating at a spa – a decision that Croatia’s veterans’ affairs minister said he supported.

Historical revisionists in Croatia and Ukraine are selectively quoting archive sources to politically whitewash their country’s involvement in Nazi collaboration and other World War II crimes.

Data comparing life expectancy in the EU show that women in Romania and Bulgaria die much younger on average than women in France and Spain.

Global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International put Bulgaria among the countries in which there is “little or no enforcement” deterring foreign companies from paying bribes.

The 62-old-year lawmaker in Bosnia’s state parliament, who is banned from US, has long faced allegations of financial impropriety.

Romanians are to vote next month on a definition of what constitutes a family, after parliament passed a bill allowing a plebiscite on whether to change the constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

In closing arguments at the Srebrenica genocide retrial of former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic, the prosecution demanded a long sentence while the defendant insisted he was innocent.

War veterans offered their backing after ethnic Albanian political representatives of Serbia’s Presevo Valley asked the Kosovo Assembly to support their demand for the area to become part of Kosovo.

Landon Tucker Davis, who was Donald Trump's presidential election campaign field director in the state of West Virginia, attended a campaign rally held by Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik's party.

A Romanian court ruled that a notorious hacker known as Guccifer will be extradited to serve a sentence in the US after he finishes his jail time in his home country.

The US State Department banned Bosnian Serb lawmaker Nikola Spiric and members of his immediate family from entering the US because of his alleged involvement in corruption.

Boyko Borissov has become well known for his grand ideas about regional infrastructure connectivity – but actual progress on them so far has been modest.

Romanians who lost loved ones in the 2015 Colectiv rock club fire expressed bitterness on Monday over the endless delays to the trial, the possibility of restarting the whole procedure – and the court's failure to replace a retired judge.

While Bosnia is gearing up for October elections, Serbia’s ruling politicians seem to be doing their best to aid Milorad Dodik’s campaign.

Advocates of territorial exchange as a solution to the Serbia-Kosovo dispute should remember that Bosnia’s de-facto partition, at Dayton in 1995, has failed to bring about true stability.

Police in Bosnian's Serb-led entity Republika Srpska on Monday said they had arrested a suspect over the attack on the journalist Vladimir Kovacevic who was assaulted on August 26. 

Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992.

Victims’ rights groups condemned the attendance of convicted war criminal Mirko Norac at an anniversary commemoration of the Croatian Army’s 1993 ‘Medak Pocket’ operation.