Southern Balkans

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is to meet France’s Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, one day before the EU-led Serbia-Kosovo dialogue continues the following day. The presidents of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Aleksandar Vucic, will resume...

Marko Radoja, editor-in-chief of Bosnian public broadcaster BHRT, said he received more than 200 threats after telling TV presenters not to wear flower symbols to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide anniversary. Marko Radoja told local media that...

A Kosovo court found seven men guilty of organising and participating in terrorist groups and illegally possessing weapons, sentencing them to a total of more than 17 years in prison. Pristina Basic Court on Tuesday convicted seven...

Thousands of Croat gathered on Monday at the main square in Zagreb to celebrate the greatest success in the entire history of Croatian football. Croats laid on a spectacular welcome-home party for the Croatian national team...

The Serbian Orthodox Church’s plan to hold a mass for the killed leader of the World War II Chetnik movement, Draza Mihailovic, has been called a “provocation” by the Montenegrin authorities. The government in Podgorica has...

Kosovo’s Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the defence of former reservist Darko Tasic, upholding his indictment for committing war crimes in the village of Krusha e Vogel/ Mala Krusa in March 1999. Kosovo’s Appeals Court...

Turkey on Sunday marked the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016 with receptions across the Balkans, including photography and art shows as well as religious ceremonies, marches and several sporting events. The embassy in Sarajevo,...

Belgrade Higher Court acquitted seven members of the Serbian security service’s now-disbanded Special Operations Unit of involvement in a rebellion against the government of Zoran Djindjic in 2001. Belgrade Higher Court on Friday acquitted the Special...

Preparations for general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, scheduled for October 7, have entered their final phase after all the political parties finalized the process of submitting their full candidates’ lists to the Central Election Commission, CIK....

A prestigious new exhibition forces a fresh look at the underappreciated architecture of Tito’s Yugoslavia. An ugly, grey reflection of life under Communism, or a radical, forward-looking expression of an egalitarian utopia, built for the masses...