The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will at last appear at his trial today, three day after proceedings opened against him on 11 war crimes charges. He has stayed in his cell since the prosecution began to read its indictment last week, but has now issued a letter saying …

The chair of Serbia’s council for cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, Rasim Ljajic, believes that the Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will give Serbia an upbeat assessment when he visits the country on Wednesday. Brammertz will discuss Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, and …

Macedonia’s junior government party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI set a deadline of December for its senior ethnic Macedonian partner to solve the ongoing “name” spat with neighboring Greece. In December the country hopes to get a date from the EU council to start EU accession talks, …