Latest News from the Balkans
31 Mar 08
Tirana _ Tirana’s Airport is to be further modernised with funds worth €46 million provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
31 Mar 08
Belgrade _ Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive, Ratko Mladic, will be caught soon claims Serbia’s Foreign Minister.
31 Mar 08
Belgrade _ Some Serbian leaders planned and coordinated February’s violent anti-Kosovo independence protests in Belgrade, according to the country’s Defence Minister.
30 Mar 08
Lipljan _ Patients in a central Kosovo Serb enclave face severe drugs shortages as shipments are held up at the border with Serbia.
28 Mar 08
Brussels_ The European Commission will soon outline measures that will allow a vise-free regime for citizens of Serbia, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has confirmed.
28 Mar 08
Skopje _ Macedonia sees the latest UN proposal for a solution to the 'name' dispute with Greece as final, the country's Foreign Minister says.
28 Mar 08
Belgrade_The deputy leader of the Serb Radical Party, SRS, Tomislav Nikolic said the best government for Serbia would be a coalition of the SRS with Vojislav Kostunica`s Democratic Party of Serbia, DSS.
28 Mar 08
Belgrade_ Serbian Caretaker Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Friday said UNMIK's claims about the existence of an office of the Serbian Interior Ministry, MUP, in Kosovo were a "fabrication".
28 Mar 08
Sofia_ The Mayor of Sofia has called for Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev to quit amid scandals surrounding the arrest of two top policemen.
28 Mar 08
Pristina _ The Serbian plan for partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines would be detrimental to the whole region, a Kosovo Serb representatives said on Thursday.
28 Mar 08
Pristina _ Kosovo's justice system is in urgent need of improvement and the authorities must cooperate fully with the EU law and justice mission being deployed in the newly independent country, a report by Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
28 Mar 08
Zagreb _ Police suspect Croatian General Ivan Korade of killing four people including a 15-year-old boy at a village where he owns a holiday home, a local news portal reported.
28 Mar 08
Bucharest _ Streets are in gridlock in the Romanian capital as police begin to section off streets ahead of next week’s NATO Summit.
28 Mar 08
Sarajevo_ Montenegrin police have arrested two citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on charges of arms smuggling, a Bosnian daily reported Friday.
28 Mar 08
Pristina _ Judgement in the trial of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj at the Hague Tribunal will be handed down on April 3, according to a statement issued by the Tribunal on Friday.