Balkan News

President Donald Trump said he is not happy with the NATO provision that requires the US to help defend other member states, including a “tiny country” like Montenegro.

Serbian protest groups have pledged to prevent the Commissariat for Refugees from displacing refugees from the 1990s Yugoslav conflict who squatted the Commissariat’s empty apartments.

Romania’s main Muslim body has dropped a Turkish-backed project to build a showpiece mosque in Bucharest due to a lack of funds.

Vastly outnumbered by tourists, the few remaining residents of Dubrovnik’s iconic Old Town rue the loss of its identity, charm and way of life.

Leaders from Macedonia’s government and opposition are expected to meet on Wednesday to air their conflicting views in an attempt to clear the path to a historic referendum in autumn on changing the country’s name.

A Kosovo court found seven men guilty of organising and participating in terrorist groups and illegally possessing weapons, sentencing them to a total of more than 17 years in prison.

The EU has put in place ‘drastic’ measures and dispatched an expert team to help Bulgaria combat an outbreak of Peste des Petits Ruminants, also known as ‘sheep and goat plague’.

Marko Perkovic ‘Thompson’, a nationalist who has sung for war crimes defendants, partied with Croatia’s footballers on their homecoming bus and was invited to sing during celebrations of their World Cup second-place success.

Marko Radoja, editor-in-chief of Bosnian public broadcaster BHRT, said he received more than 200 threats after telling TV presenters not to wear flower symbols to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide anniversary.

Greece-based Russian businessman Ivan Savvidi denied allegations that he was involved in funding anti-NATO protests in Macedonia ahead of the country's all-important name change referendum in autumn.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is to meet France’s Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, one day before the EU-led Serbia-Kosovo dialogue continues the following day.

Experts, businesspeople and tourist bosses say Croatia's sporting success has boosted its 'brand image' all around the world and so given the economy new opportunities to flourish.

Bosnian steel and aluminium producers are working with the government to safeguard jobs put at risk by the threat of a protracted EU-US trade war.

The EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, visits Skopje on Tuesday, marking the start of the screening process aimed at preparing Macedonia for EU accession talks.

After three-and-a-half years in custody in Serbia and a ten-year legal struggle against charges of ordering an attack on retreating Yugoslav troops in Tuzla in 1992, Bosnian ex-policeman Ilija Jurisic recalls how he cleared his name.

The recent NATO summit highlighted that the US and Europe are struggling find a formula to keep the Euro-Atlantic bond strong in a time of global transformation.

Thousands of Croats gathered on Monday at the main square in Zagreb to celebrate the homecoming of the national football team, following their historic success in reaching the World Cup final.

Kosovo’s Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the defence of former reservist Darko Tasic, upholding his indictment for committing war crimes in the village of Krusha e Vogel/ Mala Krusa in March 1999.

A military trainer aircraft crashed in eastern Romania on Monday, only days after the crash of a MIG 21 Lancer prompted Bucharest to ground its Soviet-made jets. 

Marking the second anniversary of Turkey’s failed coup attempt on Sunday, the country's diplomatic missions and institutions staged several events in cities across the Balkans.