Balkan News

Macedonia’s political leaders were set to resume talks on Thursday on clearing the path towards a referendum in autumn on the historic 'name' deal with Greece.

In a sport often associated with belligerent nationalism, a group of players and fans are carving out a space for a football that promotes very different values.

Some parents in the ethnically divided southern Serbian town of Bujanovac are up arms about their children attending a school where most of the pupils are Roma.

With only two official asylum and refugee centres, Bosnia is struggling to accommodate a growing number of migrants and refugees – but a new centre is still awaiting agreement among different authorities in the country.

After a video of executions in Cameroon featured what seemed to be soldiers using Serbian-made arms, Amnesty International has asked Serbia to stop exporting weapons to the country.

Commissioner's confirmation that Kosovo meets all the criteria for the long-awaited offer of visa liberalisation is hailed by Kosovo President as country's best news in decades.

After a lengthy delay, the Interior Ministry signed an agreement enabling the International Commission on Missing Persons to help find and identify the remains of people who disappeared under Communism.

Former Serbian deputy security chief Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that his client did not command an operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.

The latest Brussels meeting between the Serbian and Kosovo Presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, ended quickly and without visible progress towards the normalisation of relations.

The gallery of a coal mine in the Southern Carpathians in Romania collapsed on Wednesday morning, leaving a miner dead and one wounded, months after two men died in a similar incident.  

Croatia’s football team failed to cross the final threshold on the road to victory and become the surprise champion of world football.

Thousands of Macedonians celebrated on Saturday night after NATO invited Macedonia to start accession talks and become the Western alliance’s 30th member.

A prestigious new exhibition forces a fresh look at the underappreciated architecture of Tito’s Yugoslavia.

The acquittal verdict in the mutiny trial of Serbian security service Special Operations Unit officers, who also assassinated Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, all but ends the possibility that the political background to these two interconnected crimes will be exposed.

Belgrade Higher Court acquitted seven members of the Serbian security service’s now-disbanded Special Operations Unit of involvement in a rebellion against the government of Zoran Djindjic in 2001.

The former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, Nihad Bojadzic, was convicted of rape and other crimes against Croat civilians and prisoners of war in Jablanica in 1993.

The Romanian Defence Ministry has grounded its remaining old MiG jets after a recent plane crash near Constanta resulted in the death of the 36-year-old pilot,Florin Rotaru.

Indebted Croatian Swiss franc borrowers and the Franak Association, which represented them, are hailing their final 'David vs Goliath' court victory over the banks.

Eurogroup finance ministers and the ECB on Thursday welcomed Bulgaria’s readiness to join the Banking Union, so entering the eurozone 'waiting room' – but have postponed a final decision for at least a year.

With low expectations, few substantive items on the agenda – and with a distracted and unengaged host country – most participants at the Western Balkan summit felt they left empty-handed.