Ethics

Brussels must press Belgrade during EU accession talks to end impunity for war crimes committed by its forces during the 1990s, Amnesty International urged in a new report.

Authorities say they have evidence suggesting that convicted criminal Panayiotis Vlastos is behind two bomb attacks on targets related to Yiannis Sbokos, a former Defense Ministry general secretary and a close aide of ex-minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, jailed for money laundering in October. All three men are currently in Korydallos Prison.

PRISTINA - Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean-Claude Schlumberger and OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic opened in Pristina on Friday the regional conference on the ways to respond to instances of hate speech without violating the freedom of expression.

Foreign minister Vesna Pusic told a high-profile summit that Zagreb is dedicated to supporting wartime rape and sexual assault victims – despite the fact there have been few convictions in Croatia.

Greece ranks fourth among its European Union peers in school bullying according to data released this week which indicate that one in three secondary school students have experienced such incidents.

Greek MPs will have their privileges suspended if they are accused of certain misdemeanors, according to a draft law submitted to Parliament on Wednesday by the Justice Ministry.

They will be barred from all privileges enjoyed by lawmakers if they are convicted.

Former UK Conservative Party MP Louise Mensch launched a brief tirade against Greece via Twitter on Wednesday, labeling the country "racist."

The number of Romanian citizens identified as human trafficking victims has been constant over the past few years, but it went below 1,000 for the first time in 2013, National Agency against Human Trafficking (ANITP) Director Romulus Nicolae Ungureanu said on Wednesday, on occasion of the launch of the national campaign on preventing sexual exploitation.

IFJ urges UN to support journalists’ safety

GENEVA -- The International Federation of Journalists has urged collective action to promote media safety during a discussion organized by the UN Human Rights Council.

The panel on the safety of journalists took place during the council's 26th session which opened on June 10 in Geneva, the IFJ said in a statement.

Michael Davenport, head of the EU Delegation in Serbia, said no democratic country whose goal was to join the European Union should put any restrictions or pressure on free speech.

"One has to fight for the freedom of speech, to keep it and protect it," Davenport told a panel called "Blog open-close" held in Belgrade on June 10.