Southern Balkans

At a meeting in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic help in implementing the rule of law and fighting against corruption. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said he talked with German...

Bosnian Serb war crimes defendants Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic welcomed the UN court’s decision to allow them to make online video calls to their families while in detention. Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s...

Serbian police closed the camp run by war veterans on Mount Zlatibor that gave military training to children as young as 14, citing concerns about the possible abuse of minors. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said...

The electoral fraud trial of Macedonia’s ex-premier Nikola Gruevski and other ex-officials  heard tapes of wiretapped conversations that the prosecution claims shows their involvement in vote-rigging schemes. The Skopje court on Friday continued to hear more...

“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously asked. In 2009, Kissinger belatedly got his answer when the Treaty of Lisbon created the post of High...

What is the worst thing to be connected with in Serbian public life? According to our tabloids, there’s nothing quite so bad as human rights activists. But when you’re looking for help, when you need support...

Despite the change in power and many previous check-ups of the electoral roll to remove fictive voters, Macedonia’s list of voter remains marred by old problems, civil associations warn as the country prepares for the September...

Pop singer Ivana Vrdoljak, known as Vanna, cancelled a concert in Montenegro after critics at home complained she would be performing on a ship that they insist was “stolen” from Croatia during the war in 1991. Vanna...

Last year, the US Republican who has been accused of being “Putin’s favourite Congressman”, Dana Rohrabacher, sent a letter to the president of Serbia asking the Serbian leadership to consider exchanging territories with Kosovo. At that moment, it...

Prominent Kosovo-based Serbian Orthodox priest Sava Janjic has come under intense criticism from the Belgrade authorities and pro-government media for opposing a territory swap between Serbia and Kosovo. The abbot of the Decani monastery, Sava Janjic,...