The European Union may decide this year on offering visa-free travel to citizens of some western Balkan countries and on opening membership talks with Macedonia, the EU's enlargement chief has said.
EU enlargement may not be dead, but it is certainly showing few signs of life. Warnings that the process is on hold came thick and fast on the final day of an EU meeting in the Czech Republic that saw the bloc play host to the Western Balkan countries and Turkey.
A new international peace envoy took office in Bosnia amid concerns about growing instability there that prompted diplomats to give him an indefinite mandate.
Bosnia's war crimes court has jailed two Bosnian Serb wartime policemen for 20 years and five years for persecution of non-Serbs in southeastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war.
A TV crew was attacked in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) while trying to film a Serbian Orthodox Church in the southeastern town of Trebinje, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reports.
The UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has reduced the jail sentence of Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik from 27 to 20 years, quashing some convictions from a 2006 judgment.
Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko was appointed as new international peace overseer in Bosnia, the body overseeing the implementation of Bosnia's peace process has announced.
An Austrian diplomat has been named as Bosnia's new international envoy, just weeks after the previous one quit citing frustrations with the post. The appointment has sparked fresh debate over the role of the international community in Bosnia, where mounting ethnic tensions are threatening the fragile peace.
The global economic crisis, the lack of democratic habits and institutions, and the complete absence of a plan for future development have created fertile ground for nationalism and renewed ethnic conflict across the Balkans.
European Union peacekeepers, supported by NATO and Bosnian Serb police, have raided a building in Banja Luka as part of the search for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic.
Serbia's economy minister has claimed that a song chosen to represent Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest festival in Moscow in May was actually penned by him.
Top Bosnian Serb officials have advocated closing the international peace envoy's office in Bosnia, but a think tank report has warned the fragile Balkan country was still not ready to function on its own.
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