Balkan News

The Serbian police arrested on Friday morning several people who are suspected they have committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict in the 1990s. The arrests were made in Bujanovac and surrounding villages in south Serbia, an area with predominantly Albanian population. Most of the arrested persons are former members …

Stefan Fule urged on Thursday for talks between the Albanian political parties regarding the election of the new president. “The selection for the office of the president should respect the spirit

Serbian candidate for presidency Tomislav Nikolic said on Wednesday that Serbia should join EU only with Kosovo. “If the EU wants Serbia as its member state, it will not set the conditions that the country cannot meet,” he said.

German and Swedish Foreign Ministers hailed in Berlin an agreement on holding of the Serbian elections in Kosovo. Guido Westerwelle and Carl Bildt also urged Serbia to remain committed to its EU road. “The people in Serbia need to make their own decision,” Bildt stressed commenting the upcoming elections in …

Radovan Karadzic said there was no genocide against Muslims in Bosnia. He explained that there had been no genocide since 2.6 percent of the Muslim

EP President Martin Schultz will arrive in Bulgaria today to deliver a speech on Europe’s anti-crisis solutions in Sofia-based University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The lecture is organized by the university, the Bulgarian Atlantic Club and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

The Albanian government agreed on Wednesday to allow access to its territory to a EULEX team of prosecutors which will investigate allegations that the KLA harvested organs of Serb war prisoners. Prime Minister Sali Berisha said the parliament will pass a

Fatmir Limaj, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, has been acquitted in the Klecka case by a Kosovo Court together with three other ex-fighters. A team of European and Kosovo Judges at Pristina’s District Court announced on Wednesday that there is no proof to continue the trial …

The German government decided on Wednesday to extend the mandate of the country’s troops as part of KFOR troops in Kosovo for another year. The extended mandate maintains the limit on the number of German

Serbia signed an agreement with OSCE on Monday which states that the OSCE will only monitor Serbian presidential and parliamentary elections in Kosovo. Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for