Balkan News

The number of Serbs interested in joining the Kosovo Police remains consistent, officials said, despite reports that Serbs have been asking to quit the Kosovo Security Force amid political tensions.

Amid fears that the national script is losing out to Latin letters, Serbia’s Culture Ministry is proposing changing the law to better protect its use.

Twenty-three years after Croatia’s victorious military operation ‘Storm’, the Croatian judiciary has only prosecuted a handful of war crimes cases, while Serbia has failed to launch its own investigations.

After President Hashim Thaci’s statement that Kosovo will eventually make a ‘border correction’ with Serbia, opposition MP Ilir Deda accused him of using semantics to make an exchange of territories more acceptable to the public.

A total of 25 bodies of people suspected to have died in World War II or the post-war period were exhumed in the Croatian capital in July, officials said.

A Serbian court fined eight activists from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights for interrupting a speech by convicted war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin in January 2017.

The UN court in The Hague rejected a call from Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to reconsider a previous decision to refuse to launch proceedings against medics at its detention unit.

Ousted from the White House, Steve Bannon is trying to help right-wing populists take power in Europe.

Amid growing nervousness in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, NATO commander says the alliance is more than ready to deal with any trouble on the streets.

Thousands of people gathered to honour late Croatian musician Oliver Dragojevic at a commemoration at the Croatian National Theatre in Split on Tuesday.

Officials in the Adriatic country expect the 2018 holiday season to beat the previous record year of 1987 – and earn Montenegro nearly a billion euros.

The images of Bulgarian national heroes and political leaders appear on mugs and fridge magnets next to those of Stalin, Hitler and Communist leader Todor Zhivkov on vendors’ stalls around the country.

Prime Minister Dancila’s latest blunder, in Montenegro, has added to a concern that inexperienced ministers are undermining Romania’s international standing.

Erratic supplies of a breast cancer drug and the lack of a national cancer register are hurting the chances Albanian women have to defeat the disease.

Kosovo’s government has completely lifted trade barriers for agricultural products from neighbouring countries after measures recently imposed by Pristina threatened to spark a trade war.

Serbian police arrested Husein Mujanovic, a former soldier in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for alleged war crimes against Serbs during the 1990s conflict.

The parliamentary group of non-Serb ethnic minority MPs warned they will leave the ruling coalition if the deputy foreign minister is not sacked for allegedly “promoting inter-ethnic hatred” in a Facebook post.

Moldovan MPs are expected to vote this autumn on a domestic version of the US Magnitsky Act to prevent money-laundering schemes in the country which has suffered major losses from large-scale financial scams.

The Zagreb-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO has produced a guide for politicians on how to apologise for crimes committed during Croatia’s 1995 military operation ‘Storm’ as its anniversary approaches.

With Serbia likely under no obligation to recognise Kosovo as a condition of EU membership, Kosovo needs to consider different strategies as a partially sovereign territory.