Following months of political bickering within the Democratic Party, Dragan Djilas, has been elected the party’s new leader.Dragan Djilas was elected as the new leader of the opposition Democratic Party, DS, at an early party electoral assembly in Belgrade’s Sava Center on Sunday. He received 2,386 votes, while his rival, …

A mixed panel of two EULEX judges and one Kosovo judge at the District Court of Pristina acquitted Aleksandar Bulatovic of war crimes.Bulatovic was accused of having taken part in a group that allegedly abused a Kosovo Albanian, Xheladin Idrizi, who was found dead in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, in 1999.

Natasa Kandic, head of the Humanitarian law center, paid homage to the victims of the 1991 Vukovar massacre on Saturday – while expressing surprise at the recent acquittals of the two Croatian generals in The Hague.Kandic has represented the families of the victims of the 1991 Vukovar massacre at the …

Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta pledged to bury his political feud with President Traian Basescu after next month’s parliamentary elections, predicting he will return as premier and turn his full attention to the country’s economic and social challenges.

Following the surprise acquittal in The Hague of two Croatian Army generals, Serbia has launched a diplomatic battle against the decision before the UN and the International Court of Justice.Serbia has launched an international drive against the acquittal of Croatian army generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac by the UN …

Romania’s anti-graft drive risks delays after the business of naming new heads for the country’s main anti-corruption institutions hit an obstacle.Romania’s Superior Council of Magistrates, CSM, on Thursday rejected ministerial nominations for the posts of Chief Prosecutor and head of the National Anti-Corruptin Directorate, the DNA. The CSM, tasked with …

Ruling coalition names two new ministers and a deputy minister on Thursday after the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, was forced into opposition.Bosnia’s State Parliament on November 22 named Fahrudin Radoncic as the new Security Minister, Zekerijah Osmic as Defence Minister and Edita Djapo as Deputy Finance Minister. All three …

The leader of the Serb-dominated entity in Bosnia marked the 17th anniversary of the Dayton Accords by urging Bosnia’s transformation into confederation of three units, including a new entity for Croats.Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the mainly Serbian entity in Bosnia, said the Dayton Accords of November 21, 1995 …

Nine former police officers were once again found not guilty for committing a war crime against civilians from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.The presiding judge, Milanka Zizic, said while explaining the verdict that the defendants had arrested civilians unlawfully but that they cannot be held liable for committing a war …