Balkans

The United Nations has recommended that representatives from Serbia and Kosovo engage in more voluntary dialogue to improve relations, a leaked United Nations report has shown. Within the 24-page report, which charts the UN’s mission in Kosovo, secretary general Ban Ki Moon states that relations between Kosovo and Serbia will …

More than one hundred Bulgarian rangers have been sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission. The Bulgarian servicemen will be assigned tasks related to security and defence at the Butmir base, near Sarajevo.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Croatia on Monday in what will be the first stop on her tour of several Balkan states. Merkel is later expected to travel on to Belgrade and Podgorica, the capitals of Serbia and Montenegro respectively. Merkel’s message is likely to emphasize the fact that …

Serbs, who have been at barricades near the village of Rudare since July 25, are monitoring the roads leading toward the Brnjak and Jarinje crossings. It is peaceful, but uncertainty and tension are the words that best describe the situation in north Kosovo.

Ohrid Framework Agreement achieved its goal and brought back the peace, creating opportunities for everyone to take part in the establishment of the political and public life, while the Constitution does not allow any discrimination of the ethnic communities, says Musa Xhaferi, Deputy Prime Minister in the Macedonian government in …

EULEX Head Xavier Bout de Marnhac stated on Thursday that the EULEX mission had stepped up police patrols in north Kosovo. He added that EULEX had opened investigations into fire at the Jarinje administrative checkpoint, murder of members

UN Security Council debate on Kosovo could be postponed due to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s two day visit to Serbia. The UN Security Council session will not be held on August 24 and it will probably be held a week later. 

A Serbian minister has criticized the European Union, claiming it has “double standards” and alleging it is moving the goalposts for Serbia regarding consideration for EU membership. Rasim Ljajic, Serbian Labour and Social Affairs Minister, claimed that the EU’s decision to make Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal of …

One of the four municipality mayors in northern Kosovo expected to decide on the removal of barricades near the border has told press he won’t authorise this. Krstimir Pantic, the mayor of Mitrovica, said that Serbs would remain at the barricade near the village of Rudare until their requests had …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit EU’s next member Croatia on August 22. Croatia successfully ended its negotiations with the EU and is ready to sign the adhesion treaty and start the process of ratification among member states. Croatia closed accession talks with the European Union which started in 2005 …