Southern Balkans

A full week after Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska celebrated its disputed January 9 ‘statehood day’, the fallout has not abated. While Bosnian Serbs appear to defend the celebration more as a matter of principle...

Macedoia’s Ministry of Economy on Thursday became the first institution to start applying the provisions of the new Law on the Use of Languages, which extends the official use of Albanian across the country. The ministry...

In spite of freezing winter conditions, many migrants and refugees in Bosnia are still attempting to cross from the non-EU Bosnia into EU-member Croatia. Undeterred by the freezing weather, migrants and refugees are still attempting to...

Human Rights Watch, HRW, said in its World Report 2019, published on Thursday, that Balkan countries made only modest progress last year in the field of human rights, citing lack of support for war crimes prosecution...

Serbia’s appeal court has acquitted those convicted of trying to set fire to the US embassy in Belgrade in 2008 in a protest against US support for Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Serbia’s Appeals Court on Wednesday...

At a joint press conference in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Croatian counterpart both agreed that the 1995 agreement which ended the 1992-5 war in Bosnia is not working. Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Serbs who have been protesting against the rule of President Aleksandar Vucic for the past six weeks on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic’s murder. Thousands of Serbs gathered in the...

The short film In Between has been selected to appear at the Berlinale International Film Festival, a first for Kosovo cinematography. Kosovo film-making will debut at the prestigious Berlinale International Film Festival next month with the...

A court in Montenegro found investigative reporter Jovo Martinovic guilty on drug-smuggling charges. The Higher Court in Podgorica on Tuesday sentenced investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic to one and a half years in prison for alleged drug...

The leaders of Macedonia and Greece, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras, are to be nominated for a Nobel peace prize for their efforts to achieve a historic agreement between their countries. One of the 2015 Nobel...