Balkans

The OSCE and Bosnia’s top judicial authority have launched a joint project aimed at accelerate work on war crimes prosecutions by supporting support legal institutions.The project, which started on Monday and will continue for 15 months, is intended to help tackle the huge backlog of outstanding prosecutions in Bosnia’s two …

Bulgarian mafia and oligarchy structures are sabotaging attempts to form a caretaker cabinet, according to political analyst Ognyan Minchev. “The brutality with which those shady structures obstructing cabinet formation are an indicator of their great interests to prolong and manipulate instability,” said Minchev in an interview for the Trud daily …

The Bulgaria for Citizens party led by former EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has unveiled its pre-election plan to reform the political system and boost the struggling economy.Kuneva’s party on Sunday unveiled its 31-point programme aimed at tackling the roots of the discontent which has resulted in mass protests and the …

Parents are passing on unresolved traumas from the 1990s conflict to their children, with destructive consequences for society, Bosnian mental health experts have warned.Parents who have been traumatised by witnessing ethnic cleansing, the killings of friends and relatives or brutalisation in detention camps during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina …

Feeling stressed or not sleeping? No wonder. Noise levels in Belgrade are now up to 30 per cent higher than the limit allows.Noise levels in the capital were above the permitted levels at all 35 measured locations and at 18 the noise level was constantly above the recommended level, Belgrade’s …

The European Commission will present its report on Macedonia on April 16. It depends on the report whether the country will get a starting date for accession negotiations with the European Union. The report will be announced a day after the second round of local elections in the country. The …

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has met Prime Minister of Croatia Zoran Milanovic as part of his visit to Zagreb, Azertag reported. They praised the economic relations between Azerbaijan and Croatia. They stressed the importance of the visit

Bulgaria’s outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has claimed that his country would have joined Schengen if it were not for its internal political turmoil. “I believe that we would have entered Schengen by air at the (European Council) meeting on March 14, since, as you know, only the Netherlands was …

The Shura Council, Egypt’s upper house of parliament, approved a draft law submitted on Wednesday canceling the maritime borders of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement between Egypt and Greek Cyprus, according to a report published by the Middle East News Agency (MENA).

Greece on Friday said it was in favour of Kosovo joining the EU and boosted its economic collaboration with Pristina, despite not yet having recognised the Balkan country’s independence. “There are varying opinions regarding the status of