Balkan News

The Bosnian state court has sentenced five former Bosnian Croat soldiers to a total of 12-and-a-half years in prison for crimes committed in a camp in Ljubuski in Western Herzegovina.

Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a 'collection' and 'labour camp' and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims.

Ahead of the historic referendum on the deal with Greece, Macedonians are increasingly optimistic about joining NATO and the EU, an opinion poll published on Wednesday shows.

A dispute over a long-ago uprising risks undermining recently improved relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia – which will also make life harder for Macedonia’s pro-EU forces.

The Romanian Justice Minister refused to end a probe into the Attorney General’s work, raising fears that the legal official might be the next target in the government’s efforts to curb prosecutors’ power.

Governments in the Balkans fear the fall in the value of the currency will stimulate Turkish exports – while state and private investment in the region dries up.

Kosovo's opposition parties are demanding an extraordinary parliamentary session to put a resolution aimed at protecting the country's territorial integrity against possible border changes with Serbia to a vote.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj asked the UN court in The Hague to be allowed to appeal against its final verdict sentencing him to ten years in prison for the persecution of Croats.

At a meeting in Berlin, the Croatian Prime Minister and German Chancellor discussed the adoption of an action plan aimed at strengthening political and economic relations between the two countries.

Bosnian journalists staged protests in three towns to demand an end to violence against media workers in the country after a reporter was attacked outside his home at the weekend.

A tenfold decrease in foreign direct investment since 2007 suggests that Bulgaria has lost its attractiveness for foreign companies, the Bulgarian Industrial Association said.

Flowers were laid at a ceremony to commemorate 43 people who were killed in August 1995 when Bosnian Serb forces shelled the Markale market in Sarajevo.

Kosovo’s former President Fatmir Sejdiu told BIRN that redrawing the country’s borders in a deal with Serbia would contravene the constitution and could spark trouble across the Balkan region.

Macedonia is cancelling a 70-million-euro loan from the Council of Europe Development Bank until it reworks the flawed project plan for the construction of a brand-new medical centre in Skopje.

The 52nd BITEF festival explores the somber themes of political, social and individual decay, through some of Europe’s most accomplished avant-garde theatre productions.

A Serbian opposition party has proposed law changes that would oblige parliament to take a vote on citizens' initiatives, such as one calling for life in prison for child killers.

As Kosovars rediscover their taste for the ancient fermented grain drink known as ‘boza’, the heir to a business that dates back generations can look forward to a bright future.

Recent talk of an exchange of ethnic territories between Kosovo and Serbia has alarmed most Balkan experts in the US – many of whom still believe it is unworkable and will encourage other conflicts.

A former homeless Croat is now conducting 'anti-tours' of the capital, Zagreb, where people can learn a lot about this hidden phenomenon.

A Croatian artist is exhibiting a painting of Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak taking poison after the Hague Tribunal convicted him last year of committing war crimes against Bosniaks in the 1990s.