Balkan News

The Bosnian prosecution charged former policeman Dusan Cimesa with committing crimes against humanity by leading an attack aimed at driving Bosniaks out of the Bihac municipality in 1992.

Years after Yugoslavia ceased to exist, many Serbians retain fond memories of the nationwide celebrations of Republic Day – and still celebrate it each November 29.

Five years after a referendum effectively banned gay marriage in Croatia, conservatives behind the vote will gather in a 5-star Zagreb hotel to mark the anniversary. Gay couples, however, have moved on to a new fight – for the right to foster or adopt children.

The EU began 2018 vowing to focus on strengthening the rule of law in the Balkans – but attempts to speed up an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo overshadowed this and helped raise tensions to a worrying level.

As part of a new draft law on public information access, Macedonia plans to make political party finances public and to fine those who refuse to disclose the data.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said it is investigating claims about the alleged inhumane treatment of Serb war crimes convicts who are serving their sentences in Estonia.

Several people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, including a former colleague, two policemen, and others with alleged links to criminal gangs.

Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs rallied in North Mitrovica after Pristina imposed 100 per cent tariffs on imports from Serbia, while mayors of four Serb-majority municipalities resigned in protest.

The Serb mayor of North Mitrovica resigned in protest over Pristina’s tariff hike on Serbian imports, with the mayors of the three other Serb-majority municipalities in NorthKosovo expected to follow suit.

Some 1,000 people joined a march in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, calling for more public engagement and political action to tackle the problem of violence against women.

Daniel Kaddik, outgoing head of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Sofia, says the EU has done Bulgaria no favours by turning a blind eye to its mounting problems.

Having realized that any pretense of a rules-based order in the region is collapsing, local elites are becoming more brazen in their confrontations.

Macedonia’s main opposition VMRO DPMNE party on Wednesday is to launch the first in a series of anti-government protests aimed at toppling a government which it says has brought only 'darkness' and 'poverty'.

Silvana Arsovic, a former administrator at Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic’s office, where he was shot dead, was arrested on suspicion of manipulating its security cameras.

The electoral list of Bosniak leader Sulajeman Ugljanin has been forced to enter a coalition with a rival party in order to maintain control over Serbia's Bosniak National Council.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says he supports Kosovo's decision to hike import taxes on Serbian and Bosnian goods, calling it a justified political reaction to Serbia’s hostile acts.

The Serbian court sentenced a female Serb ex-soldier to five years in prison for her involvement in the torture and murder of a Bosnian Army nurse during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has assured Moldovans living in Russia that they can come home and vote in the 2019 elections – and go back to Russia – whether or not their Russian papers are in order.

Powerful Kosovo Serb political leader and businessman Milan Radoicic, wanted as a suspect in the murder of rival politician Oliver Ivanovic, alleged Kosovo police raided his home in order to kill him.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Croat philosopher Srecko Horvat are to run in the European elections in Germany for the new radical-left Democracy in Europe party, they announced on Sunday.