Balkan News

A baby and a woman in her nineties were the youngest and oldest victims of Srebrenica to be buried so far, said Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute as the 23rd anniversary of the mass killings approaches.

Croatian media have reported that Marijo Skrinjar, a journalist for local Zg-Magazin news site, has been missing for over a week after boarding a train from the town of Kutina to Zagreb.

A grand meeting of Agrikor’s creditors on Wednesday approved a settlement of its debts and the company’s takeover by its creditors.

Most Kosovo citizens expect the final phase of the dialogue with Serbia to end with recognition, while fewer think it will include land swaps or partition, according to a new poll.

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said an appeals court decision to acquit members of the Sima’s Chetniks paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992 will hinder successful prosecutions in future.

Defence lawyers for former Serbian security service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Hague court that notorious paramilitary leader Arkan’s fighters operated as part of the Bosnian Serb police in 1995.

Republika Srpska has said that members of its Civil Protection corps, taking part in an disaster-emergency exercise in Serbia this autumn, may not display Bosnia's state symbols or flag.

A Belgrade court decided to allow previously rejected evidence allegedly placing former Serbian state security officers at the scene of the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija.

Romania’s Social Democrat-led parliament on Wednesday passed changes to the country’s criminal code, despite warnings from home and abroad that they threaten the rule of law. 

Russia was willing to go to 'any lengths' to bring down Montenegro's pro-Western government in 2016, and the country's Western path still remains vulnerable, a new report from a US-based think tank says.

Bulgaria's parliament has supported controversial legal amendments that oblige media to reveal the sources of their income – pushed by the media mogul and politican Delyan Peevski.

The European Commission withheld financial assistance for Moldova on Wednesday after the country’s Supreme Court last week cancelled the Chisinau mayoral elections. 

Its policies might resemble those of Hungary or Poland, but in not rocking the EU boat, Bulgaria is emerging as the bloc’s preferred model for Eastern Europe.

Balkan politicans ignore the downsides of Chinese investment at their peril.

Macedonia has started working on preparations for the forthcoming plebiscite on its name agreement with Greece, a historic opportunity for the country to unblock its EU and NATO accession bids.

The renovation of an early 20th century school in Pristina is the latest project that the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency is helping to finance as Ankara keeps up its 'soft power' investment in Kosovo.

A witness told the trial of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that he saw Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, shoot a captive dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995. 

Two alleged members of the radical Salafi Islamic movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor, were charged with acquiring weapons to carry out a terror attack.

Presidents meet and pledge to strengthen cooperation, but Russia remains the elephant in the room.

The first ever meeting of its kind between the governments of Montenegro and Albania comes amid growing migrant, refugee challenge.