Balkans

Demonstrations against the response of the Greek police have spread well outside the country’s border. In Italy, police blocked off roads around the Greek embassy as protestors tried to gather. The Greek police have been violent and cowardly said demonstrators from the Italian communists and some anarchist parties.

A delegation led by Serbia’s Human and Minority Rights Minister, Svetozar Ciplic, has been presenting Belgrade’s rights’ records to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Serbia’s national report reflects the joint work of several ministries and non-governmental organisations and highlighted the benchmarks of human and minority right issues in …

Local police deployed strong special police forces in Bosnia’s southern town of Capljina, to prevent clashes between supporters of rival wings of the local Roman Catholic Church. The incident took place on Sunday, as the regional Roman Catholic Bishop Ratko Peric came to Capljina to consecrate the construction of a …

Bosnian Serb leaders have shrugged off the latest criticism from the international community’s top envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina as “incorrect and generic.” “People in the Office of the High Representative, OHR, think that their opinions are imperative and that they should remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina but we will …

Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says he hopes the negotiations on dual citizenship with Montenegro will be concluded in the coming days, and a deal will be signed soon. “I expect a compromise agreement on dual citizenship with Montenegro, which would recognise dual citizenship for all those who gained the …

Romania’s leftist Social Democratic Party, PSD, decided on Monday to start negotiations with its arch-foes, the centre-right Democratic Party, PLD, in order to form a new government. “We were facing a difficult moment, as we decided to start discussions with our main political contenders. But it is in Romania’s interest …

Given the lack of reactions in Belgrade, it is said that Thursday’s raid on the home of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic’s son, was not as successful as expected. The Belgrade home was entered by special units of the Serbian police in the morning, which searched the home for eight …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters clashed with police for a third day in several Greek cities in riots fueled by growing economic hardship and triggered by the shooting of a teenager on Saturday night. Police chased rioters with tear gas in Thessaloniki and clashes were reported in Crete, Corfu …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek flights will be grounded on Wednesday as air traffic controllers walk out for one day to join a general strike over labor reforms and the government’s economic policies, union officials said. “All flights from and to Greek airports will be halted and only emergency flights will …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of students clashed with police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Monday in a third day of rioting since police shot dead a teenage boy in Athens at the weekend, state television reported. Thousands clashed with police and rampaged through Athens and other cities …