Balkan News

The city of Pristina is planning to open its own war crimes museum in a disused Communist-era bunker to display exhibits about the atrocities committed during the 1998-99 conflict.

Croatia is expecting more tourists and higher profits during the summer holiday season, but concerns have been raised that there could be a shortage of labour to service the tourism trade.

MPs from Serbia's ruling parties on Tuesday appointed former Belgrade mayor Sinisa Mali as Serbia's new finance minister – drawing claims from some experts that he will act merely as the long arm of the Serbian President.

An ex-member of the Red Berets unit told the retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the unit persecuted and murdered Bosniaks in the Doboj area in 1992.

One out of every five women in Moldova has been subjected to sexual harassment at work, and one out of every five female students sexually harassed in the education system, a new study said.

The wife of Skender Bislimi, accused of torturing Kosovo Albanians with a Serb paramilitary group in 1999, testified he had already left Kosovo when the crimes were committed because the family was afraid of Serbs.

More than 2.3 million Romanians and 533,000 Bulgarians aged between 20 and 64 were living in another European country last year, according to a report by the EU statistics agency.

Almost two decades after the Kosovo war, many thousands of people whose houses or land was seized during or after the conflict have still not been able to get their property back.

After the Bulgarian President's bridge-building trip to Russia, energy issues are likely to be the main topic at the Prime Minister's follow-up meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Growing disappointment in the Balkans over EU enlargement has put the accent back on the importance of the Berlin Process – a complemetary initiative aimed at boosting regional cooperation.

Macedonia's Foreign Minister said in Brussels that he was not dissuaded by some EU member states' doubts about granting his country a start to EU accession talks this year.

Canadian ex-soldiers who took part in peacekeeping missions in the Balkans in the 1990s are returning for a ‘Battlefield Bike Ride’ tour from Bosnia to Croatia, honouring foreign troops who served there.

One man was injured and another arrested when Kosovo Albanians in the village of Klina protested against Serbs displaced in the aftermath of the 1999 conflict who returned to visit the local church.

The government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity has finalised a proposed law to grant rights to wartime torture victims - but campaigners fear it could discriminate against non-Serbs.

A decision to halt construction work of a road from Kosovo to Montenegro, following protests by a Serbian Orthodox monastery, has sparked conflicting responses in Kosovo.

Croatia's Franciscan Order on Sunday said an investigation into a friar suspected of paedophilia was in the final phase and that, having confessed guilt, he now faced expulsion.

Macedonia and Greece have agreed a 'framework' for a compromise solution to their bilateral name dispute – but it needs more work, Macedonia's Foreign Minister said on a visit to Brussels.

US Ambassador in Tirana Donald Lu on Sunday said he feared the judges handling former interior minister Saimir Tahiri's drug charges case were coming under pressure and had received bribe offers.

Montenegro's ruling Democratic Party of Socialists won in most municipalities in local elections on Sunday, amid numerous irregularities and reports of violent incidents.

Joint border checkpoints are just the latest sign of a burgeoning partnership between Ukraine and Moldova – as both countries unite to resist Russia's ambitions in the region.