12+ hour, 37+ min ago  (557+ words) President Zoran Milanovic has stripped Branimir Glavas of his state decorations, according to a decision published on Wednesday in Croatia's Official Gazette. "Branimir Glavas is hereby stripped of the following decorations of the Republic of Croatia: the Order of Prince…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago  (332+ words) Pyrotechnics fly from the direction of SNS premises towards protesters in Vrbas, August 12, 2025. Screenshot: N1 At least 50 people were injured in the northern Serbian town of Vrbas after clashes erupted between protesters, ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) activists and police on…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (382+ words) The Basic Prosecutor's Office in Niksic has filed an indictment charging businessman Aleksandar Djukanovic, the brother of Montenegro's long-serving former prime minister and president, Milo Djukanovic, with the illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials allegedly found at his family…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (79+ words) Balkan Insight Letters to the Editor To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (784+ words) In recent months European officials have intensified talks with the authorities in the EU candidate state Bosnia and Herzegovina on the issue of harmonising its visa policy with Schengen Area regulations. Of particular concern to the EU is Bosnia's visa-free…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (489+ words) Opposition parties usually have the ruling party as their main antagonist. But in Turkey, a court ruling on May 21 that restores the previous leader of the Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, has ignited a feud within the main opposition party....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (187+ words) Balkan Insight It has been a long and painful journey for survivors of wartime sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia to secure a degree of legal recognition and protection, but children born of such violence remain, to this day, largely…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1626+ words) Balkan Insight On Thursday, Polish authorities arrested a man suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of a Russian dissident in the eastern city of Biala Podlaska, in a case PM Donald Tusk described as a possible political assassination. The…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1324+ words) North Macedonia's former president has accused the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE-led government of not making any real attempt to join the European Union and instead blindly following US foreign policy. Stevo Pendarovski, who was the country's president from 2019 to 2024, says the American-Israeli…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (365+ words) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced on Wednesday at a press conference in Brussels that the Western alliance will considerably reduce peacekeeping troops in Kosovo as a result of the improved security situation in the country's Serb-majority north compared to…...