Croatian Democratic Union

A former member of the governing Croatian Democratic Union was fined for threatening the Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO because of its campaign apologising to Serb victims of the 1995 military operation ‘Storm’.

Bosnia's politicians should be more aware of the benefits and power that use of social media can bring - and many of them are making a mistake by not using this direct form of communication with the public, analysts say.

After police in the Hercegovina-Neretva Canton, one of ten cantons in Bosnia's Federation entity, intercepted a convoy of migrants last Friday, accusations have continued to fly between the canton and the state government over whether the police had a right to stop it or not.

Media reported that a member of the governing Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, is being held in custody in Austria for allegedly doing a Nazi salute during a controversial WWII commemoration in Bleiburg.

At a joint press conference with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Monday, Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister Martina Dalic said she was resigning as she "did not want to be a burden" to the Prime Minister's government and to Plenkovic's ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

The latest attempt to find a solution for the deadlock over elections in the Bosnian city of Mostar collapsed on Thursday after the latest meeting of the political parties failed to reach an agreement.

The city will likely have to wait another two years for local elections.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic remains the only head of state in the Balkan region to lead a political party, having not followed the example of his predecessor, Tomislav Nikolic, who quit the Serbian Progressive Party to assume his new office.

Bosnia's embattled ruling coalition, comprising the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, the Alliance for Better Future of Bosnia, SBB, and the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, has lost the support of another two MPs in the state parliament.

MPs from Bosnia's main parties have dismissed claims that the country - which only got a national anthem 19 years ago under a decision made by the country's international de facto governor - could soon get lyrics to accompany the tune.

As a Croatian investigative parliamentary committee prepares to hear the first testimonies on how the country's biggest private company, Agrokor, was created, many irregularities from the privatisation processes of the 1990s are expected to be revealed.