Southern Balkans

In an open letter to the EU, three former High Representatives for Bosnia have defended the election of Zeljo Komsic as Croat member of Bosnia’s presidency, and called on Brussels to respond to any outside interference...

The former UK prime minister’s institute is seeking to hire a senior advisor for a Belgrade posting, to ‘work closely and advise’ top officials on governance issues. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, TBI, is...

Anniversaries of the union of the Serbian and Montenegro kingdoms on November 26, 1918, have attracted little public attention in Montenegro – until now. But when the centenary of this event came round this year, both the...

After visiting migrant reception and detention facilities and a centre for unaccompanied refugees and migrant children in Croatia, and similar facilities in Bosnia, as part of a fact-finding mission on November 26-30 before submitting a report...

Macedonia’s Prime Minister on Friday said he agreed ‘in principle’ with the opposition on a draft law offering an amnesty or pardon to some of those involved in last year’s rampage in parliament. Macedonian Prime Minister...

Bosnia’s main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA and the main Croat party, Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, are facing an unexpected challenge – despite their apparent triumph in the country’s October elections. In spite...

Police arrested one of Montenegro’s opposition leaders, MP Nebojsa Medojevic, and sent him to serve his sentence for refusing to testify in a bribery case involving the country’s special prosecutor and Podgorica’s former mayor. Police arrested...

The war crimes acquittal of the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, has angered Serbs but delighted some Bosniaks. A group of Serb war victims protested outside the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on...

The most recent person to be arrested in connection with the shooting of Oliver Ivanovic was his former party administrator, Silvana Arsovic, who was detained on Monday and is being held in custody for 48 hours....

The Serb mayor of North Mitrovica resigned in protest over Pristina’s tariff hike on Serbian imports, with the mayors of the three other Serb-majority municipalities in NorthKosovo expected to follow suit. The Serb mayor of North...