Balkans

The Greek parliament has ratified Serbia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, the Greek Embassy in Belgrade announced on Monday (January 31st). Greece is the 12th EU country to ratify the agreement. Germany is expected to ratify it in February and France by the end of April.

A former member of the Serbian paramilitary unit the Scorpions has been arrested near Grenoble on Monday (January 31st). Milorad Momic, 47, is suspected of killing Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995. Police say he has

Natasha Butler, spokesperson for EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele, urged Macedonian politicians Monday (January 31st) to resume dialogue to guarantee the normal functioning of parliament. She voiced the

Kosovo municipal courts have started to process cases dealing with alleged manipulations that occurred during the December snap general elections. The court in Gjakova has

UNMIK is ready to fully support a probe into the Kosovo organ trafficking, the latest report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says. It also expresses the expectation that progress will soon be made towards opening the Belgrade-Priština dialogue which has not yet begun due to the toppling of the …

Bosnian police arrested Sasa Baricanin on Tuesday on suspicion of war crimes committed against the non-Serb population in Sarajevo during the country’s 1992-95 war. Baricanin was arrested in Pale, some 25 kilometers southeast of Sarajevo, on an order from the State Prosecutor’s Office.

Albanian opposition leader Edi Rama on Tuesday called for fresh anti-government protests in the capital Tirana on Friday for the third week in succession. Rama said the marches in the Tirana and at least four other cities were to demonstrate “peaceful resistance” to the government. Rama on Tuesday reiterated a …

Romania and Bulgaria should enter the Schengen Agreeement together, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has stated. “Romania can not enter Schengen without Bulgaria, since the two states are parts of one and the same

Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković thinks that his country will become a candidate for EU membership by the end of this year. He said on Monday during his visit in Brussels that it was necessary

The mayor of the Kosovan municipality of Đeneral Jankovic Rufki Suma and the municipal councilors want to sue Serbia for war crimes committed on the territory of the municipality in 1999. The initiative was welcomed by experts in human rights in Kosovo. According to the executive director of the Council …