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Number of Balkans states limit migrant passage

Slovenia has said it will begin turning back "economic migrants" arriving through neighbouring Croatia.
News • 19 Nov 15

Coffee mishap caused Serb president's plane dive

A co-pilot who spilled coffee on the instrument panel of the Serbian president's plane and then hit an emergency button while trying to mop it up, caused the jet to plunge, an investigation showed.
News • 21 Apr 15

Serbia and Croatia found not guilty of genocide

The UN's highest court has ruled that Serbia did not commit genocide against Croats during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
News • 03 Feb 15

Over 1m affected by devastating floods in Bosnia

Bosnia has said that more than a quarter of its 4m people had been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory.
News • 20 May 14

Mladic witness says Serbs fought in 'self-defence'

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic's defence case opened at the Yugoslav war crimes court with one of his officers insisting his forces acted in self-defence during the siege of Sarajevo.
News • 19 May 14

Death toll in Balkans flooding rises to 44

More bodies were recovered from the Serbian town of Obrenovac as unprecedented floods swept the region, bringing the overall death toll across the Balkans to 44.
News • 18 May 14

Worst flooding in a century in Balkans kills 30

At least 30 people have died in the last three days in the worst floods to hit Bosnia and Serbia in a century.
News • 17 May 14

EU sets date for Serbian accession talks

The European Union has set a date of 21 January for the start of accession talks with Serbia, rewarding it for democratic reforms and its efforts to normalise relations with its former province, Kosovo.
News • 17 Dec 13

Kosovo voting again after violence at first poll

Residents of a Serbian part of Northern Kosovo are being asked again to vote in local elections today.
News • 17 Nov 13

Dutch state blamed in three Srebrenica deaths

The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men ordered to leave a UN compound in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
News • 06 Sep 13

Talks between Kosovo and Serbia end without deal

Talks aimed at ending the ethnic partition of Serbia's former Kosovo province ended without result in a major setback for Serbia's hopes of starting EU membership negotiations this year.
News • 03 Apr 13

Serbian PM says time to face facts over Kosovo

Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told Serbia it had "practically" lost sovereignty over Kosovo, and said autonomy for ethnic Serbs living there was the most it could hope to salvage.
News • 14 Jan 13

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