Southern Balkans

An announced changing of the guard in Serbia’s diplomatic service is drawing warnings from former diplomats that a steady decline in the calibre of the country’s embassy staff risks accelerating fast. More than a third of Serbia’s ambassadors...

Relatives of the 68 people killed in February 1994 when Bosnian Serb forces shelled Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace commemorated their deaths in the Bosnian capital. Relatives of victims and Sarajevo residents on Tuesday laid flowers and read...

Tens of thousands of people have been gathering every weekend to march against what they call the climate of “political violence” in Serbia created under the rule of President Aleksandar Vucic and his governing Serbian Progressive...

Milanka Opacic, a left-leaning lawmaker from Croatia’s ethnic Serb minority, is no stranger to intimidation. The former social policy and youth minister has had her share of vitriol from Croatian ultranationalists. But nothing like the venom...

A new dossier published by the Humanitarian Law Centre NGO documents the role of the Serbian police, army and State Security in the forced displacement of Croats from Serbia during the 1991-95 war. Vesna Abjanovic was...

A Romanian court decision has left the country’s army without a leader – and sparked concern among opposition parties about potential risks to national security. Romania’s army remains leaderless after a Bucharest court annulled a presidential...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says he is committed to reaching a compromise deal in talks with Kosovo, the former Serbian province which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognised by Serbia. But while Vucic has...

A European Union Court of Justice ruling, ending a long-running dispute between Slovakia and a private Dutch investor, might produce a chain of events that could spare Bulgaria hundreds of millions of euros. This might be...

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said that in order to rescind his country’s controversial tariffs on Serbian goods, Pristina wants a final, comprehensive agreement with Belgrade about Kosovo’s status. Kosovo’s premier Ramush Haradinaj on Tuesday reinforced his...

Kosovo Serb politician Slobodan Petrovic has accused Serbia of using state security bodies to intimidate rivals, such as himself, of a Kosovo Serb political party that is backed by Belgrade. In three separate cases in December...