Balkan News

Chaos in the ranks of the UK government over Exit has cast a pall over the opening of the London West Balkans Summit.

While Western leaders stayed away, a significant number of Balkan leaders attended Recep Tayyip Erdogan swearing-in as Turkish president – a sign of Turkey’s clout in the region.

State Court rules that Amir Haskic intended to fight for Islamic State – but imposes no penalty as he later changed his mind.

A truck carrying the remains of 35 Srebrenica genocide victims passed through the Bosnian capital ahead of their reburial on the anniversary of the massacres, with locals honouring the dead by adorning the vehicles with flowers.

A month after an agreement with ministers, the International Commission on Missing Persons is still waiting for parliamentary approval to begin the search for thousands of Albanians who were killed or disappeared under Communist rule.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Monday bowed to government pressure to dismiss the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, whose fight against high-level graft had angered the ruling party.

Ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, questions have been raised about whether the verdicts so far are logical, because some commanders have been convicted of less serious crimes than their subordinates.

Continuing the Berlin Process, European and Balkan leaders will meet in London on Monday to discuss ways to improve growth in the region, strengthen security and achieve reconciliation.

The London summit this week could kick-start the revival of the stalled reform process in the region – but won’t if human rights and the rule of law stay off the agenda.

Celebrity deaths, resurrections and the coming apocalypse – fake news has found an audience in Moldova, and democracy is endangered.

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday for a new protest over the unresolved death of David Dragicevic in Banja Luka, the biggest town in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska.

A Facebook group with more than 330,000 members has urged Bosnians to gather in the centre of Banja Luka on Saturday for another protest rally about the unexplained deaths of youngsters like David Dragicevic.

The Hague Tribunal and domestic courts have sentenced 45 people to 699 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for genocide, crimes against humanity and other offences against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

As Agrokor’s creditors prepare to take over the company, analysts predict fire sales of the most profitable parts – and lawsuits from those who feel short-changed by the settlement.

Serbia's bare-knuckle fight to get countries to revoke their recognition of Kosovo is not contributing to a solution – and may be designed to scupper the EU-led negotations, analysts say.

Zagreb-based NGO Documenta - Centre for Dealing with the Past said in a new report that the number of war crime trials held in Croatia last year was the lowest since 2005.

Croatia’s Supreme Court reduced the sentence handed down to former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, from 15 to 13-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes in Croatia in 1991.

Moldova held a National Day of Mourning on Friday for over 100,000 victims of the Soviet purges, rounded up and taken on trains to Siberia, often to their deaths, in three successive waves.

As Kosovo leaders face growing criticism over the lack of transparency in the Serbia-Kosovo talks, opposition parties have dismissed the President's stated willingness to report back to parliament on the dialogue process.

China’s summit with 16 Central and East European states in Sofia will keep a low profile – as Beijing and Europe’s big economies prepare for a more substantive clash with the US in July.