Southern Balkans

While Angela Merkel’s political deal with the Social Democrats, the SDP, awaits final approval, experts on the Balkans predict that the new coalition will not make major changes towards the Balkans, but some countries might face...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic suggested that Serbs and Croats should avoid tensions by refraining from talking about their past differences for six months – but what else could they possibly discuss? Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic seems...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced that a planned two-day visit to Croatia will go ahead on Monday and Tuesday – despite contined acrimony between the two countries, and after Serbia’s Defence Minister claimed he could...

A motion for retrial submitted by the lawyers for Milorad Ulemek and Branko Bercek, who were found guilty of Ivan Stambolic’s murder and Vuk Draskovic’s attempted murder in 2007 and 2008 must be reconsidered due to alleged new...

The Vojvodina branch of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party, SRS, has filed an initiative to open a new Serbian-Russian Humanitarian Centre in Serbia’s northern province, alongside the one in Nis in the south. Deputies of the...

Romania’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former finance minister Darius Valcov to eight years in prison for money laundering and influence peddling, in one of the country’s most high-profile graft cases. Romania’s Supreme Court on Thursday...

After Bosnian Croats called for the establishment of a third, Croat-ed entity in the country, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, warned that this could cause armed conflict. Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the...

Some 61 per cent of Macedonians support a solution to the dispute with Greece over their country’s name, if it speeds up Macedonia’s entry into NATO and the EU, a survey by the Skopje-based Institute for...

Montenegro plans to deploy two military officers in the NATO-led mission in Kosovo, its first new international operation since it joined the Western military alliance last year. Montenegro’s National Security Council on Friday decided to send...

The EULEX prosecutor in the trial in Kosovo of Naser Kelmendi – who was found guilty of running a drugs operation but not of murder – says witnesses brave enough to testify received death threats. After...