A Kosovo court has rejected Fatmir Limaj’s motion that he is not obliged to answer corruption charges as a statue of limitations expired on April 23, saying that he is still under investigation.Pristina’s District Court has ordered the former Minister of Transport Fatmir Limaj to make himself available to EULEX’s …

The trial of 8 ex members of the Serbian special operations unit, charged with mutiny in 2001, has started after some delays as the defence tried to have the prosecutor and the entire Trial Chamber removed.On Wednesday afternoon, the president of the Belgrade High Court, Dragoljub Albijanic, has rejected the …

In a letter to the UN Human Rights Committee a Swiss NGO has criticised a failure of the Bosnian authorities to investigate the murder of two elderly Bosnian Serb women during the war.The Swiss organisation Track Impunity Always, TRIAL, has asked the UN Human Rights Committee to request from the …

The EU has urged Serbia to transfer control of the witness protection unit from the police to the Ministry of Justice, as the witnesses are often threatened by those responsible for their safety.According to Jelko Kacin, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Serbia, the Ministry of Interior’s Witness Protection Unit, WPU, …

Unconfirmed reports of the murder of a young ethnic Macedonian in Greece have raised tensions in Macedonia.The Macedonian government has called for restraint and condemned “all attempts to manipulate this sensitive and serious issue,” following unconfirmed reports in Macedonia’s media that a young ethnic Macedonian has been killed in Greece.

The Serbian authorities are investigating the involvement of a Belgrade DJ in war crimes allegedly committed in Bosnia by paramilitaries known as Arkan’s Tigers.On the request of the Serbian War Crime Prosecutor’s Office, Belgrade police is investigating the role of Srdjan Golubovic, a Belgrade DJ, into war crimes committed in …

The US Ambassador to Bosnia, Patrick Moon, has called for reform of the Bosniak-Croat Federation entity, but said he would not propose any solutions.The US embassy in Sarajevo said that in the past six months, the ambassador Patrick Moon has been encouraging individuals, political leaders and NGOs to start a …

The Romanian government has cancelled the privatisation of the country’s largest chemical company, Oltchim.The bid to privatise Romania’s state–owned chemical producer, Oltchim, had been cancelled, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Monday evening, after the previous bid winner, Dan Diaconescu, failed to pay for the majority stake. “We have to …

As Serbia awaits an EU progress report which is likely to be negative, the country’s nationalist government has started signalling a change in their attitudes towards EU integration.Suzana Grubjesic, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU integration, has said that Serbia is in no rush to meet the …

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said that Kosovo and Serbia must normalise relations soon to begin integrating with Europe, but he insisted that partition of Kosovo “will never happen.”Thaci met with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and US officials in a fringe meeting …