Balkans

The European Parliament will hold a debate on Albania on Wednesday, with MEPs and the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton expected to participate. The Parliament is also expected to vote on a resolution on Albania drafted by Greek left-wing MEP Nikolaos Chountis. Speaking for Deutsche Welle radio Chountis said …

Momcilo Mandic testified at the trial of Radovan Karadzic that some individuals carried out ethnic cleansing of the non-Serbian population in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war, but that they did not do it

The president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has said that the fight against corruption and organised crime is one of the main priorities for Kosovo’s development.

Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Monday (July 5th) that Greece has managed to slash its budget deficit by 42% since the beginning of the year. According to the Central Bank, the deficit is now 4.9% of GDP, or 11.45 billion euros, compared to 19.685 billion euros a year …

According to an announcement Monday, an appeals chamber of the UN war crimes tribunal plans to rule July 21st on the verdict handed down to former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and two other former

Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says Serbia highly appreciates Romania’s backing to the country’s territorial integrity and EU integration. Dačić, who is visiting Bucharest today, stressed the significance of the support for Serbia since Romania is one of the EU member states which have not recognized the …

The Bosnia-Herzegovina Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment against former member of the Republic of Srpska Army (VRS) Marko Boškić. Boškić, who is citizen of both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, was arrested at the international airport in Sarajevo on April 28 last year, after he was deported from the United States.

BANJALUKA, SARAJEVO Pripadnici Državne agencije za istrage i zaštitu (SIPA) uhapsili su dvojicu državljana Saudijske Arabije, koji su u Lukavici špijunirali kretanje najviših funkcionera iz Republike Srpske. Kako saznaju “Nezavisne”, 28. juna privedeni su Saudijci Alguasem Ahmed Ibrahim i Aldaood Ibrahim Abdulaziz, koji su tokom saslušanja izjavili da su pripadnici …

LONDON The extradition hearing of former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic got under way in London on Monday, with lawyers acting for Serbia stating he was guilty of a “clear war crime” and must face justice. Prosecutor James Lewis detailed Serbia’s claims that in 1992, Ganic helped mastermind attacks on a …

Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić will confer with his Romanian counterpart Vasile Blaga in Bucharest on Tuesday. Dačić will also visit the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) regional center for combating trans-border crime, the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday.