A close friend and doctor of the family of alleged Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic has been nominated to be Serbian health minister.
A Gallup poll shows that two thirds of Montenegrins are afraid to express their political opinion. A director for Gallup described that result as "alarming."
As part of massive reductions in its World Service radio programming, the BBC is set to close its language operations in Serbia, Macedonia, and Albania. The reductions come at a time of mounting financial pressure on international broadcasting outlets, although one, Al-Jazeera, is expanding its presence in the Balkans even as the BBC cuts back.
Montenegro's parliament has approved Igor Luksic as the new prime minister, replacing Milo Djukanovic.
Would the Balkan countries be better of if their leaders stepped down amidst all these corruption and criminal allegations?
The prime minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, has announced his resignation. He's the longest serving political leader in the Balkans, having held the office of prime minister on three occasions, and that of state president once.
Heavy rains have prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people in Serbia and Montenegro, while snowfalls and low temperature have caused deaths in Central and Western Europe.
A Montenegrin journalist and a nongovernmental organization have received favorable court decisions in heavily-criticized cases just days ahead of the European Commission's November 9 report on Montenegro's application to become a candidate for membership in the bloc.
The annual European Union progress reports on membership hopefuls, adopted by the European Commission today, paint a largely depressing picture. Out of nine countries, only Croatia emerges with a realistic chance of joining the EU in the foreseeable future. All of its neighbors in the western Balkans fail key EU tests and conditions, as does Turkey.
On November 4, 19 years after the Serbian army marched to Vukovar, Croatia, Serbian President Boris Tadic came to Vukovar and laid a wreath at the Ovcara memorial, which honors 260 Croats slain there by Serbian forces. But is a wreath enough?
The number of bankruptcies in Montenegro has risen by half in 2010 compared to the year before, court records show, suggesting that the European Union hopeful's economy may be in worse shape than was previously thought.
nalysts and Montenegrin officials say strong investor interest in the country's first international bond is proof that the European Union hopeful has a stable macroeconomic situation.
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