Southern Balkans

Eight Romanian soldiers were among the wounded in a terror attack that killed 11 children in southern Afghanistan, targeting a NATO convoy. A suicide bomber targeting a Romanian NATO patrol in a village in Daman province,...

At 5.30am, on March 31, Turgay Sen, a Turkish national and director of the Horizont chain of private high schools in Moldova, was on his way to Bucharest to attend a conference. He never reached his...

A ruling of Bulgaria’s High Administrative Court has cheered environmental campaigners seeking stronger protection for the Pirin National Park against alleged threats of development. Bulgaria’s High Administrative Court on Tuesday annulled a decision of the former...

Atif Dudakovic, former commander of the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, was arrested on suspicion of war crimes against Serbs and Bosniaks in 1994 and 1995. Former general Atif Dudakovic, along with 11 other officers...

Romania’s centre-right president Klaus Iohannis has publicly called on Social Democrat Prime Minister Viorica Dancila to resign, saying that she is ‘unfit for the post’. Romania’s centre-right President, Klaus Iohannis, on Friday urged the Social Democrat...

The Serbian government’s discarded media strategy draft, which has been obtained by BIRN, planned to bring the state back into the media market through public-private partnerships. The Serbian Information Ministry’s draft media strategy, which was criticised by media...

After some Western European countries banned Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential election campaign rallies, the Turkish leader and his ruling party will hold their first demonstration abroad in Sarajevo. Turkish pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak reported that President Recep...

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis took his bicycle out on Monday afternoon to “enjoy the spring weather” – but said he quickly discovered just how chaotic traffic was in the country’s capital.    ...Read More

Prosecutors urged judges at the UN court to reject former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal and increase his sentence to life imprisonment for genocide and other wartime crimes. Prosecutors told the Mechanism for International...

UN Office for Drugs and Crime says 2003 convention could enable Romania to seek the extradition of officials sentenced or on trial for graft – who have fled to countries that have no sign extradition treaties...