Parliament’s constitutional committee was to discuss changes intended to bring EU accession closer but instead agreed to close its doors to press and public.
>>>Parliament’s consitutional committee will discuss moves that will help address EU concerns about judicial independence.
>>>Three of the six defendants charged with killing five men in April pleaded innocent at the start of their trial in Skopje.
>>>Ceremonies to mark Orthodox Christmas at churches and monasteries in Kosovo were shadowed by detentions and protests.
>>>Two former officials accused of collaborating with Communist-era Yugoslavia's secret police have had their names cleared.
>>>Attackers have damaged several graves, crosses and tombstones at a Serbian Orthodox cemetery in the Croatian town of Knin.
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Zagreb has sent back Serbian indictments for war crimes against three top Croatian military officials, saying they aren't valid.
>>>Croatia is to introduce official use of the Serbian language and script into about 20 areas of where Serbs make up more than a third of the population.
>>>A court in Skopje has delayed the start of a trial of six people charged with the murder of five men in April to January.
>>>The government has released a list of half a million former fighters in the independence war from 1991-1995 - in a drive to clamp down on the widespread abuse of veterans status.
>>>The head of Macedonia's Lustration Commission says his work will continue despite the high-profile resignations of two members of the commission.
>>>The Advisory body of Council of Europe suggests that the most important judicial functions in Montenegro should be appointed by a two-third parliamentary majority.
>>>The Croatian local courts need to prosecute those responsible for war crimes that took place in Croatia, EU official says.
>>>The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced that Goran Salihovic has been appointed the Chief Prosecutor of the Bosnian State Prosecution.
>>>The initiative by Montenegro’s judges to ban public comments on non-final verdicts is largely seen as controversial and against the basic principles of open trials.
>>>Key dates and events in transitional justice in Serbia.