Southern Balkans

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, who went missing earlier this week, has been found “alive and well”, and appeared not to have been kidnapped. President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that Cvetkovic...

The Yugoslav People’s Army was used to achieve the Serbian leadership’s nationalist goals during the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia, according to a report from the Humanitarian Law Centre watchdog group. The Humanitarian Law Centre...

Monuments erected in the Macedonian capital under the Skopje 2014 project – often depicting figures from Classical Antiquity that angered Greece – are to get new inscriptions honouring Greek-Macedonian friendship. Huge statues erected in recent years...

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Dinamo Zagreb, who was convicted of fraud by a Croatian court, has refused to extradite himself voluntarily from Bosnia. Former Croatian football club boss Zdravko Mamic, who has been convicted...

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Dinamo Zagreb who was convicted of fraud by a Croatian court, was arrested on an Interpol warrant in Medjugorje, Bosnian police told BIRN. Former Croatian football club boss Zdravko Mamic, who has...

Serbian police are investigating the reported disappearance of a journalist who claimed to have uncovered fresh details about the murder of the Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic. Serbian police on Thursday said they had started a...

A cartoon published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo depicting Roland Garros winner Simona Halep has left many Romanians unamused. A cartoon published on Thursday by the famous French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has angered...

Journalist Dejan Anastasijevic told the trial of former Serbian state security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the units they controlled fought to implement Slobodan Milosevic’s plan to seize parts of Bosnia and Croatia. Prosecution...

Romania’s Social Democrat Party on Wednesday fired its social media chief for creating and spreading a fake video on Facebook. Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party chief Liviu Dragnea on Wednesday said that he had fired the...

Members of a conservative citizens’ initiative, ‘The People Decide’ who have been collecting signatures seeking a referendum on changes to election law, on Wednesday submitted their petition to parliament. A socially conservative civic initiative in Croatia, “The People...