Southern Balkans

The Serbian commission for examining the alleged effects on public health of NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia will start work in late August or early September, its chairman said....

Croatia on Monday began work on construction of the Peljesac Bridge – despite fierce condemnation from Bosniak politicians in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosniak politicians in Bosnia have savaged Croatia for starting work on a controversial...

After Saturday’s murder in Belgrade of the high-profile lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic, Serbia’s Bar Association has called for a state commission to probe attacks on lawyers. The President of the Serbian Bar Association, Viktor Gostiljac, on Monday...

After parliament finally appointed a new electoral commission, Macedonia is starting initial preparations for the autumn referendum on its historic ‘name’ deal with Greece. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said he hoped parliament would adopt a...

Bosnia’s State Court has acquitted Rade Vlasenko, Drago Koncar and Milan Krupljanin of charges of having killed Rajifa Memic and her mother, Radifa Kurtovic, in June 1992 in the Barakovac neighbourhood of Kozarac in northern Bosnia....

The dominant position of Russian-language media has left Moldova the most vulnerable country in Eastern Europe to Kremlin propaganda, a new study claims. Moldova is the most exposed country in Eastern Europe to Russian propaganda, owing...

As dusk sets over Berlin, scores of scantily clothed women and girls pour out on the Kurfurstenstrasse and nearby streets – the German capital’s most notorious sex trade neighbourhood. Many of these women, local residents say,...

Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday dismissed as groundless the request of Milan Nedic’s family to rehabilitate the wartime leader who headed a puppet government in Nazi-occupied Serbia. The decision may be appealed within the next 30...

Experts caution against complacency in recent cases of death threats against senior judges in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Death threats sent on Saturday to two senior judges in Bosnia and Herzegovina have triggered concern over the intimidation...

At its latest summit in Brussels last week, NATO invited Macedonia to start membership negotiations. Once admitted, under a new name and with an amended constitution, it would become the 30th member of the military-political alliance. Unlike...