Ethnic groups in Europe

The Belgrade Higher Court has opened the trial of Lazar Mutlak, a Bosnian Serb wartime reserve policeman and member of Srpsko Gorazde Territorial Defence, for raping a Bosniak women on May 25, 1992.

According to the indictment, Mutlak entered the house of another civilian in the village of Lozje, in Gorazde municipality, where among others was a women of Bosniak nationality.

President Milo Djukanovic at the polling station in Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

On April 2, Djukanovic lost the second-round vote to Europe Now candidate Jakov Milatovic, losing power 32 years after he was first appointed Prime Minister in February 1991.

In the second round of the election, preliminary results put Milatovic far ahead on 60 per cent of the counted votes while Djukanovic won 40 per cent.

Milatovic had the support of the ruling majority parties, while Djukanovic was supported by the smaller opposition Bosniak Party and two ethnic Albanian parties.

Starting on Monday, applications for low-interest housing loans for young people will be accepted. 

Rade Grujic, a former member of Snagovo Company of the Zvornik Territorial Defence force, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the Bosnian state court to raping a Bosniak woman in the village of Liplje during the war.

Montenegrin Interior Minister Filip Adzic (left) and police director Zoran Brdjanin (centre) at a press conference. Photo: Government of Montenegro

On March 22, the police force's assistant director, Dejan Knezevic, was arrested on the orders of the Special State Prosecutor's Office for allegedly setting up a criminal organisation.

Some Montenegrin sailors say a spate of drug seizures involving their colleagues has made finding work with international shipping companies increasingly difficult

The UK government introduced to parliament on Tuesday proposed legislation, dubbed the 'Stop the Boats' bill, to crack down on illegal migration, in many cases by Albanians using small boats to cross the Channel from France.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Arnaud Guyon announced on Tuesday that more Serbian-language supplementary schools would be opened in the US and Austria.

Tony and Cherie

As former British Prime Ministers and their spouses go, the Blairs are a relatively well-known couple in the Balkans. As Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was among the most vocal - and hawkish - faces of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia over Kosovo and remained engaged with the region thereafter.