BRUSSELS -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dačić met in Brussels on Wednesday. After the meeting, they expressed hope that Serbia will gain the status of an EU candidate next year....
The arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged in the worst massacre since World War II, marked an unlikely yet radical transformation in a country that had appeared headed toward virulent nationalism...
Rasim Ljajic, a senior government official, showed a photo of Radovan Karadzic during a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia. Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia — The arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb leader...
In Brussels there has been a positive reaction to news of Radovan Karadzic’s arrest. It is now expected that Serbia will be declared to be co-operating with the war crimes court in the Hague, a move opening the way for Serbia’s...
The European Union is surrounded by troubles after the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty on 12 June 2008. But if the union's west Atlantic frontier is unsettled, there are cautious signs of movement on its Balkan fringe....
Snap Parliamentary Vote Follows Dissolution of the National Assembly Serbia held a May pre-term election after a Parliamentary stalemate over Kosovo's declaration of independence caused President Tadic to dissolve the National...
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA (AFP) - Kosovo's Serbs inaugurated their own assembly Saturday in defiance of the United Nations and Kosovo's Albanian majority who proclaimed independence four months ago. The Serb "parliament" draws its...
The Radicals (SRS) and the DSS-NS coalition say they were not surprised at the announcement yesterday that the Socialists were ending the cabinet talks. Both political groups say the guilty party for the failure of negotiations...
Relations between Belgrade and Sarajevo unlikely to improve whoever comes to power. But it is unclear whether the SPS will join a pro-European coalition led by President Boris Tadic’s Democratic Party, DS, or they will ally...
Excerpt: Nothing so destroys the delusions about democracy as the practice thereof. Examples of this are legion; one could look at the daytime drama presidential campaigns in the U.S., or the ethnic referenda in places like Kenya or Bosnia-Herzegovina. The latest exhibit in the case against...