Balkan News

Veritas Center Director Savo Štrbac said that Stanko Kovačević, suspected of having committed war crimes in Croatia, was arrested in Podgorica. Police arrested Kovačević on Friday according to an Interpol warrant, which was issued by Interpol in Zagreb. He is currently in custody pending extradition, Štrbac said.

Electricity price will not necessarily rise; it might fall, it might keep its level. What is important is for the prices to correspond to the expense and methods, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traycho Traykov said.

Belgrade is to host the fifth conference of the parliamentary committees for European integration affairs in the member states of the Stabilization and Association Process for South East Europe, the media report. Up for discussion at the two-day conference are the stabilization and association process, experience gained and future challenges, …

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević says Serge Brammertz did not, “in a single word”, say that Mladić is out of Serbia’s reach. Earlier this week, media in Serbia reported that Vukčević said Brammertz’s report states that “Hague fugitive and indictee Ratko Mladić is not within the reach of the …

Serbia recognized Macedonia under its constitutional name and that position will not change, said President Boris Tadić. He made the statement after his meeting with Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov in Belgrade late on Thursday.

Romanian President Traian Basescu says his country believes that Serbia is “the key to peace in the Balkans”.

British lawyer Richard Harvey has been appointed as former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić’s legal counsel, the Hague Tribunal has decided. The court stated today that its Secretariat provided Karadžić the possibility to speak to the lawyers from a list of attorneys, but that the accused did chose any of …

The cabinet confirmed on Thursday a coalition-sponsored motion to put the border arbitration agreement with Croatia to a referendum.

Macedonia needs protectorate and preliminary elections to tackle the political crisis, leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Albanians /DPA/ Menduh Thaci said. “I am sure that situation in Macedonia is dramatic. Political conjunctures that rule the state are frivolous and the rest political players that try to make other …

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, was laid to rest Thursday afternoon at the monastery in the Belgrade suburb of Rakovica. The funeral service at the monastery’s cemetery was served by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and Concierge of the Throne of the Serbian Patriarch, Metropolitan Amfilohije.