Bosnia

More than a quarter of a century since the Yugoslav federation fell apart, the borders between most of the former constituent units - Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia -remain unresolved.

The retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who are accused of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia, will open at the UN court on Tuesday.

The president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, hit back on Wednesday after sanctions were imposed on him by the US Treasury, declaring the US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maureen Cormack, "a proven enemy" of the Bosnian Serbs who was "unwelcome in Republika Srpska".

BELGRADE - Croatia's EU accession marked the end of one accession model, and the process is now completely different for Western Balkan states due to the circumstances in the region and the EU itself, such as the economic crisis, migration and Brexit, Regional Cooperation Council Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic said Thursday.

BELGRADE - Croatia's EU accession marked the end of one accession model, and the process is now completely different for Western Balkan states due to the circumstances in the region and the EU itself, such as the economic crisis, migration and Brexit, Regional Cooperation Council Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic said Thursday.

Experts engaged by the Bosnian Serb authorities will stage reconstructions of the deadly blasts at Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace in 1994 and 1995 and an attack on a bread queue in 1992.

The UN court will deliver its verdict on Thursday in the trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is accused of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

A report that is due to be issued on Wednesday by Brana [Dam], a coalition of Bosnian NGOs formed after the catastrophic floods that hit Bosnia in 2014, monitors the transparency of recovery projects and international donations.

The report will present the results of more than a year's research into hundreds of projects implemented over the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Fahrudin Radoncic, the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBBBiH) said on Sunday that he is ready to testify at the trial of the alleged Balkan drug lord Naser Kelmendi which is currently underway in the Kosovo capital Pristina.

Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic on Sunday said Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be the first ex-Yugoslav republics to sign a border demarcation agreement.

After meeting the President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, in the town of Tivat, Vujanovic said the agreement would be signed  by the end of August in Vienna.