Kosovo has marked the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women with a call for all perpetrators of sexual violence that took place during the Kosovo war to be punished.Kosovo’s president, Atifete Jahjaga, has urged institutions to strengthen existing mechanisms in order to “help victims of the war – …

The former Agriculture Minister, Sasa Dragin, and eight more people have been detained on suspicion of abuse of office, as a part of Serbia’s drive to root out corruption.Dragin and other eight suspects were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of abuse of office involving illegal sale of mineral fertilizers which …

Bosnian leaders are to meet Europe’s Enlargement Commissioner, Stefan Fule, on Tuesday, after five months in which few promised reforms were undertaken.The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, will meet Bosnian authorities on Tuesday in Sarajevo for another high-level meeting on Bosnia’s EU integration process. But, as key long-awaited reforms …

Domagoj Margetic, a journalist from Croatia, says the president of the Republika Srpska tried to bribe and threaten him not to reveal his alleged ties to the Hypo Bank corruption case.Margetic, who wrote series of groundbreaking stories on the Hypo Alpe Adria Banka affair, said in Banja Luka that Dodik, …

In a letter to the Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Jose Angel Gurría, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov stated that Bulgaria confirms its candidacy for full membership.

Montenegro’s civil society organisations and its Bosniak community have condemned the acquittal of nine former police officers, charged with committing a war crime against refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.The Bosniak community in Montenegro has fiercely criticised the verdict in the trial of nine policemen charged with deportation of …

The regional police command in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, has launched an investigation after eight Kosovo Serb policemen refused to intervene during the interethnic clashes in Kroi i Vitakut / Brdjani on Thursday.The eight officers, all ethnic Serbs, disobeyed the order by their Kosovo Albanian superiors from the regional police command …

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution says that an MP is endangering its independence by alleging that it did not prosecute organ trafficking claims in Kosovo in 1990s.Speaking this week at a parliamentary session, Milovan Drecun, the head of the parliamentary commission for Kosovo and Metohija, said that the Serbian War …

Bulgaria confirmed Thursday its desire to become a full-fledged member of the OECD through a letter from Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. The letter was handed to OECD Secretary General Angel Guria by Bulgaria’s Ambassador to France Marin Raykov, according to the press office of Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry. Raykov emphasized Bulgaria’s …

The Croat member of Bosnia’s state presidency, Zeljko Komsic, has met leaders of the opposition Nasa Stranka [Our Party] with a view to forming a joint bloc in the 2014 electionZeljko Komsic recently met leaders of Nasa Stranka [Our Party], a small left-oriented opposition party, to discuss campainging together in …