Macedonian Parliament adopted yesterday once again the Law on Usage of Languages, i.e. the language spoken by at least 20 percent of citizens in the Republic of Macedonia and units of local self-government.
Matthew Nimetz, the UN special envoy assigned to mediate the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece will meet with negotiators of both countries in New York on 14-15 August.
The Southern Balkan region has been characterized by a pervasion of organized crime syndicates over the past decades due to the dramatic political developments and their geographical placement close to Turkey and the Asian-European contraband routes.
The new Conservative government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who has pledged to make accession to EU and NATO his top priority, was approved by the parliament in Skopje on Saturday (26 July). But an ongoing row with Greece looks to remain a key obstacle to the country's EU aspirations.
Serbia is going to present a resolution to the United Nations in which it will ask the UN General Assembly to seek the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence, Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic told a news conference in Cairo
In the second of five pieces by BBC journalists examining life in Kosovo today, Nick Thorpe meets one of the few remaining Albanian families in northern Mitrovica.
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic told Public Prosecutor that he had made deal with US envoy for the Balkans Richard Holbrooke that if he withdrew from political and public life, he would not be extradited to the Hague Tribunal
Natasa Kandic says that Karadzic’s extradition represents Serbia’s position towards most serious war crimes. But Kandic, who heads the Humanitarian Law Center NGO, told B92 that the reasons for his indictment were not fully discussed in public.
The European Union has once again stopped short of rewarding Serbia for the capture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic mainly due to the Netherlands' resistance.
In the second of two pieces on organised crime accompanying his Radio 4 series How crime took on the world, Misha Glenny reveal the details of a cigarette-smuggling scam that funded many of the paramilitary killing machines in the Yugoslav wars.
The human rights in Kosovo are unsatisfactory as serious violations of human rights were registered in the past year, Kosovo's acting ombudsman Hilmi Jashari said on Monday.
