Freedom and democracy must fought for and protected, said Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev at the Memorial for the Victims of Communism in Sofia. Wednesday Bulgaria is marking for the second time the official Day of Gratitude and Homage to the Victims of the Communist Regime.

Kosovo’s ruling party backs calls by Fatmir Limaj’s lawyers for EULEX prosecutor Maurizio Salustro to be stripped of immunity and made to testify. The ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, said the European Union Rule of Law Mission, EULEX, should

Bosnian forensic experts last year exhumed the remains of 413 people who went missing during the country’s 1990s war, bringing the total number of victims found to some 22,000.