Balkan News

A Macedonian court on Friday jailed the businessman and media owner Sead Kocan - an ally of ex-PM Nikola Gruevski - for six years for falsifying documents to win a big coal extraction tender in 2011.

The US president has appalled NATO with his insulting language about its newest member – but the long-term damage to its standing will probably be less severe than many fear.

Romania celebrated its Airforce on Friday with an airshow that displayed only its newly acquired F16 jets – as its old Soviet MIG 21 Lancer jets and Romanian-made IAR 99 Soim trainers remain grounded after two recent crashes. 

A protected witness told the court at the landmark trial in Belgrade for the Srebrenica killings how he witnessed the mass shooting of Bosniak men in a hangar in the village of Kravica in 1995.

US Ambassador to Pristina avoids to say whether partition of Kosovo would be acceptable to Washington, boosting speculations there is a switch in US stance on Kosovo issue.

Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on walls in the Bosnian capital and the northeastern town of Tuzla has worried members of the country's small Jewish community.

They may look now like scenic props for sci-fi movies – but each of Serbia’s Socialist-era monuments has a fascinating and moving human story to tell.

The HDZ BiH’s close cooperation with Milorad Dodik’s anti-Atlanticist and anti-European regime exposes the hollowness of its claim to be ‘the bearer of European values’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Anti-corruption groups among Romania’s large European diaspora plan an anti-government protest on August 10, despite the capital's authorities banning the rally. 

Pupils who staged protests and managed to stop the proposed ethnic segregation of a school in the Bosnian town of Jajce will be honoured with an international award for their achievement.

Whether it’s the Berlin Process, the recent NATO Summit, Russia in the Balkans or Bosnia’s upcoming elections, huffing and puffing seem to be all around us, even if they sometimes turn into nothing more than hot air. 

Talks between Macedonia's top politicians on the planned ‘name’ referendum are to resume on Sunday or Monday – after government and opposition failed to reach agreement on Thursday.

Bulgaria's anti-monopoly body has blocked two multimillion deals, saying the buyers might achieve market dominance through a concentration of ownership in both cases.

Montenegro said it cherishes its strong friendship with the US and insisted it is a peaceful partner after President Donald Trump described the country as a potential threat to world peace.

Serbia is expected to decide on whether to permit Kosovo’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, to enter the country for an event Serbia's Bosniak National Council invited him to.

Three former members of the police force in the town of Teslic in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity were charged with involvement in the wartime persecution of dozens of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.

The Montenegrin authorities said they will change the law to impose penalties on anyone who stages commemorative events that praise war crimes convicts such as World War II Chetnik leaders.

New report by media freedom watchdog says Bulgarian reporters can produce investigations more easily than ever – but not publish them – and condemns the failure to prosecute offenders for intimidating journalists.

Born in wartime Sarajevo to a mother who had been raped in a detention camp, then brought up by foster parents in Britain, Lejla Damon returned to Bosnia to seek the truth about her origins.

Whistleblowers say lives are at risk from the scale of wrongdoing at Kosovo’s only international airport.