The Croatian government says that it will not endanger its EU integration process, despite pressure from Russia to sign an energy deal before entering the Union.President Neven Mimica said that the government would not make a deal with Russian gas companies that want Croatia to sign an energy agreement before …

Iraqi Ambassador in Belgrade has called on Serbian companies to take part in the Iraq renewal.Abdul Sada, Iraqi Ambassador to Serbia, told Nebojsa Stefanovic, Serbian Parliamentary Speaker, on Friday that Serbian companies have a certain advantage over other companies when it comes to the reconstruction of Iraq.

Nebojsa Radmanovic, the Serb member of the Bosnian tripartite Presidency, has urged the country’s Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, to resign over Bosnia’s UN vote on Syria.Day after his party boss and the president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, Milorad Dodik, had said that all political agreements between the ruling six parties …

Almost 70,000 Bosnian Croats who hold the Croatian passport are likely to leave Bosnia to look for work in the EU once Croatia becomes the union member, says a survey.The NGO “Croatia Libertas” in Bosnia and Herzegovina has conducted a survey asking its Bosnian Croat citizens: “Will you look for …

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office has refused to investigate Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov over the reports that his past is connected with criminal activity based on secret US diplomatic cables published on WikiLeaks.A brief note by Prosecutor Krasimir Kozhuharov from the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Sofia has confirmed an initial refusal …

Croatian human rights NGO has called for the prosecution of those responsible for the aerial bombings of Serb civilians on August 7, 1995.Documenta, a Zagreb based human rights NGO, issued a press release on Tuesday recalling that nine civilians died in the bombing on the last day of the Operation …

Prime Minister Sali Berisha asked his cabinet on Wednesday to send medical staff to Turkey and Jordan in order to help refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.“We should help these refugees and send our doctors, nurses, surgeons or even a field hospital as an offer of our solidarity,” Berisha said.

Bosnia’s Serb leader has called for the resignation of the Foreign Minister over the country’s vote on the UN resolution on Syria.The President of Republika Srpska, the Serb-lead entity in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, said that the country’s Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, should leave the office accusing him of breaking the …

Serbia’s ruling Progressives say that the new government’s results in fighting corruption would become visible “very soon”.Serbian Progressive Party is preparing corruption-related arrests for September, Balkan Insight has learned from the party.The tackling corruption was one of the main goals in their election programme and campaign. Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian Deputy …

The Agriculture Minister of the Bosnian Federation entity says that any similarity between his party’s slogan and the one used in a recent agriculture commercial is coincidental.In a marketing campaign entitled “Buy Domestic,” the Agriculture Minister of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, Jerko Ivankovic Lijanovic, encourages the population to buy domestic products. …