As Serbia marks the 17th anniversary of the historic accord that ended the 1992-5 war in Bosnia, Ivica Dacic has suggested that a ‘New Dayton’ might solve the Kosovo issue, tooPrime Minister Dacic said that a lasting solution for the former Serbian province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, …

Debate in Pristina hears calls for rediscovery of trust and a degree of compromise between the two estranged neighbours.The normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is essential for transforming the hostile relations of the last 20 years, a debate organized by the Kosovar Institute for Peace agreed on Tuesday. …

Plans by Macedonian Albanians to celebrate Albanian flag day on November 28 are drawing questions from the country’s main opposition party.Some Macedonians are protesting over plans by the country’s large Albanian miniority to celebrate Albania’s “flag day”. Macedonia’s junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, erected two 35-metre-high …

Stepping back from earlier talk of vetoing EU budget cuts, Romania’s parliament is now taking a more conciliatory line, merely opposing the cuts in principle.Romania’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution opposing cuts in the EU budget to funds for farming and development. New EU member states, Romania included, are …

Police arrest more suspects in the case of the state-owned bank, including former deputy Prime Minister Jozef Kasa.Prime Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed on Tuesday that police had arrested a former deputy prime minister and former director of an Agrobanka branch office, Jozef Kasa, and three other persons. They are suspected …

Census scheduled for April could be postponed, experts say, if the ruling ethnic parties suspect that many citizens do not wish to line up as members of the three main ethnic groups.The upcoming census is likely to reveal a much bigger than expected group of people who do not wish …

Forbes magazine has rated Slovenia and Macedonia as the best countries in the Balkans in which to do business. Serbia is rated worst.The US financial magazine in its annual list ranks Slovenia in 23rd position out of 141 analyzed countries worldwide. Macedonia is second in the Balkans, ranked in 37th …

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will reshuffle his cabinet once he secures a vital loan tranche to make his government more effective in a new wave of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, government officials said on Monday. Samaras will hold separate meetings with his two coalition partners, Socialist PASOK …

Serbian politicians believe that the acquittal of two Croatian generals by the Hague Tribunal will not contribute to reconciliation and European future of the region.Suzana Grubjesic, the Serbian deputy PM in charge of EU integration, said that the Hague Tribunal’s acquittal of the Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, …

EULEX prosecutor accuses Fatmir Limaj, his two brothers and four other suspects of depriving the Kosovo budget of 2 million euro and of laundering another million euro.Kosovo’s former Minister of Transport, Fatmir Limaj, and six other defendants have been accused of depriving the country’s budget of over 2 million euro …