As a row between Slovenia and Croatia heats up, the European Union has cancelled the next round of accession negotiations with Croatia planned for Friday, giving no new date talks. EU officials said no progress had been made towards brokering a deal between Croatia and its EU-member neighbor Slovenia. Despite …

Bosnia’s state court on Tuesday refused to extradite a powerful Croatian parliamentary deputy who fled to Bosnia to avoid going to jail for war crimes. Branimir Glavas was the first senior Croatian official to be convicted of war crimes against Serbs during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the …

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he had been ordered by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to fight insurgents in the neighbouring region of Ingushetia after its leader was gravely wounded in a bomb attack. Kadyrov’s harsh tactics have brought relative stability to Chechnya since he was elected in 2007 after more …