Balkan News

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Bosko Devic was sentenced to ten years in prison for crimes against humanity for his involvement in the murders of four Bosniaks in the Kljuc area in 1992.

Croatian officials and the US embassy in Zagreb have dismissed reports that the US was trying to stop Croatia from buying a dozen fighter jets from Israel, insisting that the US is completely on board.

Following Thursday's testimony by a defendant in the trial for the attack on parliament last year, the Macedonian President – and the Army General Staff – have denied being part of a coordinated plan to destabilize the country.

Two Croatian Serbs from Vukovar were charged with committing war crimes in the town in 1991, but the authorities denied that the charges were linked to a recent mass protest by local Croats demanding prosecutions.

The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which is probing wartime and post-war crimes, has asked to speak to former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Rrustem Mustata in January, his lawyer claimed.

The Croatian policemen who killed 12-year-old Aleksandra Zec in 1991 were never punished and the authorities have tried to enforce silence about the Serb schoolgirl’s murder, so we must keep telling her story.

Macedonia’s business community and government say the custom tax battle between Serbia and Kosovo may help some of their exporters in the short term – but add that they don't want politics interfering with free trade in the region.

Serbian Telekom says it needs to grow to meet the challenge of its main competitor  – but its moves have become mired in political controversy.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has told NATO's chief that Kosovo remains committed to establishing a regular army, despite warnings from NATO that the move is ill-timed and risky.

In an open letter to the EU, three former High Representatives for Bosnia have defended the election of Zeljo Komsic as Croat member of Bosnia's presidency, and called on Brussels to respond to any outside interference with Bosnia’s politics.  

While this week’s Premium stories show some interesting attempts at building cross-party political consensus around certain issues, others underscore that division and cacophony are still the main game in town in the Balkans. 

The new Serbian member of Bosnia's presidency, Milorad Dodik, on Thursday said he will seek replacements for 16 ambassadors appointed by his predecessor, accusing them of not working for the interests of Bosnia's Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska.

The group that coordinated last year’s mob attack on Macedonia's parliament was stationed on the eighth floor of the VMRO DPMNE party's headquarters, a trial heard on Thursday.

Students across the country have rallied against the Albanian government's moves to make university education even more expensive, in the biggest protest the country has seen in years.

Once the scourge of crooked politicians, Romania’s anti-corruption agency is besieged and battered. Many fear it will never be the same.

Cannabis medicine is legal in Croatia, but those who say they need it for relief from a range of conditions argue the products sold in pharmacies are too weak. They are turning to illegal avenues.

A century after they united, the now independent states of Serbia and Montenegro appear deeply at odds.

A Romanian MEP has warned that Romania will 'lose all credibility' in Brussels if it extradites a Turkish journalist sought by the Turkish authorities.

Albania has called on Greek authorities to explicitly condemn what it suspects are the hate-motivated killings of four Albanians over the last month.

Bulgarian police have seized over 80 Kalashnikov rifles, handguns, eight kilograms of gunpowder and 50,000 bullets in separate raids in Sofia and in Kazanlak.