Balkans

Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned. When Sakib Mahmuljin, the former commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, …

Although 2022 brought a change of government in Australia and a new public tone to its diplomacy — particularly towards relations with China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific — it also revealed Australia’s deep-seated geopolitical anxieties. The new Labor Party government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, stopped beating the …

Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană welcomed US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar and the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, Miroslav Lajčák, to NATO Headquarters on Monday (9 January 2023). Their meeting was part of regular consultations on the situation in Kosovo and …

Bosnia’s ten-party state-level coalition government lost two member parties on Thursday, only 20 days after it was formed in mid-December.  The Party for BiH and People’s European Alliance, NES, both from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the larger of Bosnia’s two entities, quit the coalition demanding retraction of a …

Bosanska akademija nauka i umjetnosti “Kulin ban“ danas je u hotelu Evropa organizirala akademski diskurs… na temu: „Dodikova secesionistička politika, njene posljedice i kako je zaustaviti“. Moderator je bio akademik prof.dr. Muriz Spahić koji je ukazao da je jedan od ciljeva Akademije pored standardnog bavljenja naukom i umjetnošću poput svih …

The latest developments at the north of Kosovo are reminiscent of the events from the nineties of the past century and threaten to escalate into conflict. Over the past several years there was a noticeable absence of EU- mediated dialogue between official Belgrade and Pristina. The responsibility does not rest …

In 2022, the Bosnian prosecution charged 60 people with war crimes, although ten of them are outside the country so can’t be brought to trial – a problem that the new chief prosecutor has promised to tackle.The Bosnian state prosecution filed 19 indictments in 2022, charging 60 people with war …

Vеć šest meseci Srbija dobja zvanične opomene rezolucijama… …dva puta iz Evropskog parlamenta, zatim putem Evropske komisije Parlamentarne skupštine NATO. Jasno nam poručujuda je momenat da se privedemo razumu, konačno završimo razgovore sa Kosovom i raščistimo odnose sa Rusijom. Zatim slede inicijative parlamenata Holandije i Nemačke o zvaničnom prekidu EU integracija i ukidanju bezviznog režima za građane Srbije. Ni jedan klaster o pristupanju EU nije otvoren. …

Nezir Halilović: Opća pismenost na Balkanu je došla zajedno sa orijentalnom Osmanskom (islamkom) upravom Iako se općenito smatra da je Balkan jedno od najzaostalijih i najnepismenijih prostora Evrope, činjenice ipak govore da nije tako. Istina, česti ratovi koji su posljedica sukoba interesa velikih sila narodima ovih prostora su donijele imidž …

Since September, Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has grown progressively precarious. Clashes between ethnic Serbians and Kosovo security forces saw Serbia’s military placed on high alert in November. Several high-profile Serbian officials, including President Aleksandar Vučić, announced that the Serbian military could be deployed to northern …