Southern Balkans

Bujar Osmani, Macedonia’s vice prime minister in charge of European affairs, said he has nothing to hide after the Special Prosecution in charge of probing high-level crime started to investigate him. Macedonia’s Special Prosecution, SJO, said on...

Amid claims that opposition MPs in Macedonia are under massive pressure – including death threats – not to support the government’s deal with Greece in parliament, Macedonia’s Interior Ministry has said it will use all legal...

Pristina Basic Court sent a controversial indictment charging 12 former members of the government’s commission for verifying former Kosovo guerrillas back to the prosecution for clarification. Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday said it has decided to...

Former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic was sentenced to five years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on...

MEPs have adopted a highly critical resolution on Moldova, calling attention to its corruption and blatant disrespect for democratic standards – and urging the EU to cut off financial support. The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign...

Croatian leaders have slated the election of Zeljko Komsic as the Croat representative on the Bosnian state presidency – with the Prime Minister saying that Dragan Covic deserved re-election for his work. Croatia’s Prime Minister and...

A vineyard owner in Bosnia and Herzegovina is selling bottles of wine labelled with a picture of Croatian WWII-era fascist Ustasa leader Ante Pavelic. A wine producer in Siroki Brijeg, a city with a majority Croat...

Organisations representing people with disabilities have urged Croatia to do more to speed up the process of moving disabled people out of institutions – amid concern that progress in this field is stagnating. Several disabled people’s...

Thousands of Bulgarians staged commemorations on Monday evening, with the largest crowds turning out in Victoria Marinova’s hometown of Ruse, where she was brutally assaulted and murdered in broad daylight on Saturday. Some of the people...

With the required majority for such changes in parliament still in the balance, Macedonia’s government has launched the legal procedure for adoption of the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece. At an extraordinary session on Monday, Macedonia’s...