Southern Balkans

Possibly with Ukraine, Macedonia and even Montenegro in mind, the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch has written to the global head of Orthodoxy, saying new countries should not necessarily have their own independent churches. As the battle hots...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT has agreed to remove three judges from the appellate procedure in the case of the former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT,...

A roundtable organised on Wednesday in Kosovo by BIRN Kosovo’s show “Jeta ne Kosove” heard local politicians warn that a territorial swap between Serbia and Kosovo could worsen regional instability. Albin Kurti, leader of the opposition...

German officials and members of Romania’s small ethnic German community have protested strongly after several ruling Social Democrat officials called the country’s ethnic German president ‘a Nazi’. Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party have come under heavy...

Pressing their demands for bigger benefits, former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops blocked the main street in Sarajevo and scuffled with the police. War veterans from the Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council protested...

Ahead of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s Kosovo visit, there are reports of Kosovo Serbs who work for Belgrade-funded institutions being compelled to attend his rally. Some Kosovo Serb representatives say that employees of institutions funded by...

George Simion was on his way from the Romanian capital, Bucharest, to Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, last Friday, aiming to join a rally the next day in support of Moldova’s re-unification with Romania. But he never made...

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and the Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, are trying to benefit politically from their dispute over potential “border corrections” as part of a deal with Serbia, Behlul Beqaj, a former adviser to Thaci...

‘Radni logor Jasenovac’ (‘Jasenovac Labour Camp’), the latest work by Croatian author Igor Vukic on the Croatian World War II concentration camp Jasenovac, published by Naklada Pavicic this year, seems like it is inspired by the...

Thousands of people joined a protest on Saturday in Chisinau demanding Moldova’s reunification with Romania, while supporters of Russia and continued separation from Romania called off their own gathering. Some leaders of the reunification protests claimed...