Balkan News

Romania is under growing pressure from Hungary and energy companies to rapidly adopt legislation on exploiting its gas deposits in the Black Sea – but some experts warn that the current bill is a bad deal for the country. 

The Serbian Church’s leader in Montenegro, Amfilohije Radovic, shows no sign of cooling his fiery verbal battle with the Serbian leadership over its allegedly ‘treasonous’ plans for Kosovo.

Saudi Arabia remains one of the main export destinations for weapons from the Balkans, with Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria emerging as new key destinations, SEESAC report says.

At least nine Serbs suspected of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica have fled Bosnia to enjoy refuge from prosecution in Serbia, where they remain free despite alleged involvement in the massacres of thousands of Bosniaks.

Great Power politics in the Balkans is the common theme which has threaded itself through our selection of Premium articles this week, whether it be the relations between the EU and the Balkan states, or Great Power rivalry in the region. 

After Albania's government on Thursday flagged up the 'success' of its war on crime, ambassadors from the US, Germany and the UK seemed unconvinced.

The European Parliament has passed a resolution asking the European Commission to cut off budgetary support for Moldova for breaking democratic standards.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday donated Bosnia 2 million US dollars to help it store its surplus arms and munitions more safely.

Moldovan think tank calls on Chisinau to do more to address the problems facing war veterans still living in breakaway Transnistria.

Slobodan Karagic’s 12-year prison sentence for war crimes against civilians in the Doboj area in 1992, including the rape of minors and the unlawful arrests of Bosniaks, was upheld on appeal.

The Bosnian state court sentenced three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a total of 16 years in prison for raping a Serb girl in Sarajevo in 1993.

Amid opposition MPs' absence and with the President still refusing to sign it, Macedonia's parliament on Thursday again ratified the landmark agreement with Greece on its name.

Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Milorad Obradovic was indicted for alleged participation in the murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Miska Glava near Prijedor in 1992.

A Macedonian court in a first-instance verdict on Thursday gave long jail sentences to seven men who almost killed the MP Ziadin Sela when a mob stormed parliament in April 2017.

Representatives of Serbia’s Roma community said they plan to sue the state at the European Court of Human Rights after a Belgrade court acquitted members of paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992.

After a six-year trial, the Bosnian court sentenced eight Bosniaks to a total of 60 years in prison for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilians illegally held in wartime detention camps in Hadzici.

Five Croatian citizens have been given suspended sentences for doing Nazi salutes and shouting fascist Ustasa chants during a controversial World War II commemoration in Bleiburg in Austria.

The government's plan to allow free-of-charge hospital stays for all patients in public healthcare has raised concerns that it could put more pressure on the system.

Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to block the accession of Macedonia and Albania to the EU have nothing to do with the Western Balkans, and everything to do with the European elections.

China might look like it is taking the lead in the ‘great game’ of infrastructure investment in the Balkans, but the EU’s more methodical approach will win out in the end.