Balkans

The European Commission (EC) has worked out a proposal for lifting the visa-free regime for Macedonia and Serbia. The idea has been launched by Belgium. Europe is discussing changes of the Schengen rules because of the inflow of immigrants from North Africa and the non-observation of the visa-free regime of …

Macedonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed a protest note to Greek Ambassador to Skopje Alexandra Papadopoulou because of the attitude towards Macedonian diplomats in Greece. 

The EU would be willing to discuss judicial reforms in BiH if Republika Srpska (RS) postpones or revokes its decision to hold a referendum, Charge d’Affaires of the European

The UN war crimes tribunal announced on Tuesday (May 10th) that the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will continue on May 30th instead of May 23rd, as planned earlier. The proceedings were suspended on March 21st. Karadzic is charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity …

European Commission (EC) Director for the Western Balkans Pierre Mirel visited Mitrovica on Tuesday (May 10th), stressing the importance of Kosovo-Serbia discussions, which he says will help resolve concrete issues. He also said that both the EU integration process and the visa liberalisation process should be perceived as more than …

The UN Security Council will review the UN Secretary-General’s quarterly report on Kosovo on Thursday in New York, and is expected to discuss a probe into organ trafficking allegations. 

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will end his two-day visit to Belgrade today with meetings with President Boris Tadić and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić. After he meets with Tadić and Dačić, Brammertz could share his impressions about Serbia’s efforts to find Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić. On the first day …

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić said in Istanbul on Tuesday that the allegations about human organ trafficking in Kosovo must be checked in an independent investigation. A probe into whether ethnic Albanian KLA

Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanović conferred on Tuesday in Belgrade with the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Knut Vollebaek. They discussed “issues important for normal coexistence in Kosovo”, the ministry said in a release.

EU forensics experts say they did not find any human remains after a search on Tuesday in Livoc Lake in the eastern town of Gjilani. “On this occasion no remains were located,” Alan Robinson, the co-head of the Department of Forensic Medicine within EULEX, told journalists on Tuesday.