Southern Balkans

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. Protesters rallied on Tuesday in the north of...

Three seemingly unrelated news stories in the Western Balkans over the past three weeks have emerged as the latest data points for a thesis I posited two years ago: that the Euro-Atlantic project in the Balkans is...

Emphasising the need to solve long-standing forging policy issues and unlock the country’s stalled Euro-Atlantic integration process has paid off for the Social Democratic-led government of Zoran Zaev. The latest polls carried out by M Prospect...

Police arrested Dusan Spasojevic, a former Serb Territorial Defence fighter, who has been charged with committing a war crimes against a Bosniak civilian in the village of Jusici in May 1992. Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection...

Serbian and Bosnian exports to Kosovo have reportedly tumbled since Kosovo imposed taxes on imports on November 6 – with no resolution of the trade war in sight. Serbia’s Chamber of Commerce said exports to Kosovo...

Macedonian authorities are having a hard time finding workplaces for so-called ethnic minority civil servants who have been employed in line with the 2001 Ohrid peace accord but who for years have lingered on the state...

After ex-PM Nikola Gruevski fled the country to avoid serving his jail sentence, his former colleagues in government have rounded on him for evading justice and putting their own trials at risk. Macedonian authorities detained the...

An appeals court upheld the verdict acquitting former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Fatmir Limaj, who is now deputy prime minister, clearing him of responsibility for the murders of two ethnic Albanian civilians in 1998. The appeals...

Romania’s government on Wednesday said it was considering whether to sue the European Commission over what it called a highly unjust report on the country’s justice affairs – which the PM said had ‘outraged’ her. Romania’s...

Moldova’s intelligence service said it had broken up a paramilitary group that was illicitly recruiting fighters for the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The Moldovan intelligence service, SIS, on Wednesday said it had broken up a paramilitary...