Balkan News

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic called on Serbs on Thursday to vote in the repeated local elections in Kosovo at three polling stations in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić has appointed Stanimir Vukičević as the new ambassador in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Zorica Tomić was dismissed from the

EU’s Catherine Ashton is meeting on Wednesday in Brussels with prime ministers Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaci to resolve the fate of the elections in Kosovo.

Despite attacks on polling stations in northern Kosovo, the US praised late Tuesday the country on its “historic” local elections, and called for a smooth transition into the next round of voting. “We applaud the commitment of both the Governments of Kosovo and Serbia to encourage voter participation and enable …

Bulgaria’s President Rosen Plevneliev has called the Consultative Council for National Security for a sitting on November 20. The formal title of the meeting abstractly mentions “Current risks and

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is in Belgrade where he is conferring with Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević. He is also meeting with representatives of the international community.

Serbian PM Ivica Dačić, his first deputy Aleksandar Vučić, and Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci will meet on Wednesday in Brussels.

The Greek negotiator in the decades-long dispute over the name of Macedonia has put forward a proposal to call the country “the Slavic-Albanian Macedonia.” The former Yugoslav republic’s constitutional name is “the Republic of Macedonia,” but

President Tomislav Nikolić has arrived in Moscow, where he will attend a Serbian-Russian investment forum and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nikolić will attend a business conference entitled

Bulgaria and Turkey have agreed to create a joint border committee to manage the flux of refugees from war torn Syria, said Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Kristian Vigenin Tuesday.