Balkans

A former policeman from Sarajevo testifies at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and says that more than 1,000 children were killed in the city during the course of the war. “According to Safety Services Centre’s estimates, between 10 and eleven thousand civilians were killed in Sarajevo. …

Vuk Jeremić said that Serbia was ready for dialogue with Priština and that “it would be better for everybody if the process started as soon as possible”. “As far as we are concerned it can begin right now. Officials from Brussels, who will play a mediator role, are also ready,” …

The prospects for bilateral political and economic cooperation will be considered in Baku. The negotiations will be held within Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis’s visit to Azerbaijan on November 28-29. Kouvelis, as a co-chairman of the intergovernmental

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) politicians Wednesday (October 27th) to come up with a new development strategy for the country. In an address to the European Parliament’s (EP)

Montenegro’s government will declassify all documents related to the deportation of Bosnian refugees in 1992, in order to shed full light on the events, Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marovic announced

Two independent lawmakers, Naim Rrustemi and Driton Tali, have asked the Central Elections Commission (CEC) to exclude the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) from participating in the next general elections, local media

The European Parliament welcomed the decision of the EU ministers to approve a new step toward Serbia’s membership in the union. The EP also and called on all EU countries to ratify the agreement as soon as possible.

Serbia plans to offer EUR 10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the Balkans’ most wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, an official said Thursday. Earlier this week, European Union foreign ministers agreed to ask the bloc’s executive commission

A meeting between the prime ministers of Macedonia and Greece is to take place in Brussels on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled for this afternoon, within the framework of the European Council summit. The two prime ministers will have a dialogue on the name issue.

The Croatian parliament has voted down the no-confidence vote in the government of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. After a 15-hour debate 79 MPs voted against and 62 in favor of the motion, which was tabled by 58 MPs from opposition parties.