Balkan News

Mourners gathered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the shelling of Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace and to remember the 68 people who were killed in the blast in 1994.

A European Parliament resolution criticised Serbia for staging an official welcomes for a released war criminals and urged Belgrade to do more to find missing persons from the 1990s conflicts.

The parliamentary presidency voted to reintroduce sponsorship of an event in Bleiburg in Austria commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands of Nazi-allied Croatian troops and civilians.

A new round of crisis talks between Montenegrin leaders started on Friday - but none of the offers on the table appears fully acceptable to the opposition parties.

The two main parties in Croatia's new government have pledged to select the managers of state companies through public tenders in future - but not everyone is persuaded.

Members of the EU statistics body Eurostat met the three main statistical agencies of Bosnia, setting a roadmap that should result in publication of the long-awaited census in June.

A unified inter-ethnic opposition front that would confront Macedonian strongman Nikola Gruevski in the general election is needed - but unlikely to happen, observers caution.

Visitors can now enjoy inside tours of Romania's Palace of the Parliament, the second largest building in the world, without having to leave home

As the European Parliament approved a resolution on Kosovo’s progress toward EU integration, the Parliament's Vice-President, Ulrike Lunacek, urged all member states to recognize it.

At the London donor conference, Serbia's Prime Minister has called for unified international solution to the refugee crisis - which is affecting the Balkan region's stability.

Nach dem verbrecherischen Plan des Volker Perthes – SWP-Berlin und des AA, mit Guido Westerwelle, in 2012 kommen neue Ideen im Stile von Hitler und den Nazis, durch Zerstörung ein Land zukontrollieren. Das die SWP-Berlin, KfW Banden und das korrupte Aussenministerium und Kollegen, wollen unbedingt die Plünderung und den Raub vom Syrischen Volks Vermögen organisieren und planen nun erneut den Milliarden schweren Diebstahl und die Korrumpierung mit einem Experten für Korruption: Joachim Rückers, ein wirklich übler Kerl. Alter Stile, die gekauften Politiker, im Sinne des Internationalen Terrorismus, der CIA Banditen und Verbrecher und Hirnlos total korrupt. Aktuelle Ausführung einer korrupten Gestalt, welche weder das Völkerrecht, noch Moral kennt und Hitler […]

As a strike against pension reforms and tax increases paralyzed much of Greece on Thursday, supposed anarchists threw Molotov cocktails and battled police in the centre of Athens.

Corruption is still thwarting the functioning of the justice system in Serbia, a report on battling corruption by BIRN and the Belgrade Center for Security Policy reads. 

The President's adviser on pardons has been forced out after it emerged that he sought a reduced jail term for a personal acquaintance.

High-level conference held in Kosovo demands closer cooperation on common security issues - and urges the West to support Balkan countries when addressing common challenges.

Two decades after the war, Bosnian politicians still cannot agree on lyrics for the national anthem.

Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Brano Gojkovic was jailed for ten years after making a plea bargain with the Serbian prosecution, admitting he took part in executing 800 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Fikret Planincic’s 11-year prison sentence for taking part in the 1992 killings of nine Serb civilians, including two children, has been upheld on appeal.

Bosnia's state parliament has told the Constitutional Commission - which has rejected a Bosnian Serb proposal to reform the Constitutional Court - to re-examine the proposal.

Negotiations on key chapters on Serbia’s European path could be opened as early as June, an expert said, after Enlargement Commissioner Hahn praised the progress made so far.