The United States hailed Macedonia for holding violence-free elections but urged the country to keep up the effort for the run-off vote on April 5, local media report. Mary Ann Tyson, the Press Secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told Voice of America’s Macedonian news …

Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has told the Reuters news agency that his party must win forthcoming parliamentary elections to stop the opposition implementing what he describes as “dangerous” economic plans. Stanishev said that Bulgaria did not need experiments with fiscal policy to deal with the global downturn as offered by …

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued a first-instance verdict, sentencing Krsto Savic and Milko Mucibabic for crimes against humanity committed in eastern Herzegovina. By a first-instance verdict, handed down by the State Court, Krsto Savic has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for participation in a joint criminal …