The Croatian government plans to enlist men for two months and the Serbian government for 75 days. Authorities in both countries plan to start recruiting in 2025
David Knezevich was the prime suspect in the disappearance of the US citizen last February while the couple were involved in a multimillion-dollar divorce
The shooting in the Helsinki metropolitan area, perpetrated by a 12-year-old boy, puts school violence back at the center of the political debate in the Nordic country
The project would be at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 and would feature a high-rise hotel, a luxury apartment complex, office spaces and shops
The memberships of six nations from the region have been stalled for years. But after Russia’s war on Ukraine, EU officials are more keen on trying to lure them away from the Kremlin’s influence
Police are still searching for Ana María Knezevich, a wealthy 40-year-old who was separating from her Serbian husband. She went missing in the Spanish capital after sending two strange text messages to friends
His impassioned plea comes as Russian troops have seized the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine amid worsening shortages of weapons and soldiers for Ukraine’s military
The United States will impose the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The European Union’s sanctions will target companies and Russian officials and businessmen
Civil unions may become more common among Orthodox countries gravitating toward the European Union. They remain off the table in Russia and countries in its orbit
The government of Kosovo, a former Serbian province, banned banks and other financial institutions in the Serb-populated areas from using the dinar in local transactions, starting Feb. 1, and imposed the euro
The reduction in working hours is also concentrated among young people, who are spending more time on their studies, an IMF study has indicated. The richer the country, the fewer hours people work
The Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik’s government plans to hold a celebration of a controversial national holiday that Bosnia’s top court has declared unlawful
Representatives of international rights watchdogs said the vote was ‘marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources’
The vote on Sunday pits Vucic’s governing Serbian Progressive Party against a pro-Western opposition coalition which is trying to undermine the firm grip on power the populists have maintained since 2012
The public in Bosnia and in the wider region was brutally shaken into reality in August, when a woman in the town of Gradacac was shot in the head by her former partner, in a live video on Instagram
Around 13 of the EU’s 27 member countries have reintroduced internal border checks with their neighbors in recent months, a deviation from the normal border-free travel enjoyed in the Schengen zone
The two-day session will include the first foreign minister-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a body created to help prepare Kyiv for eventual membership
Ursula von der Leyen met with top Montenegrin officials hours after parliament confirmed the new government following a heated session that lasted through the night
Russia’s war in Ukraine has put integration of the Western Balkans into the EU at the top of the 27-nation bloc’s agenda. The EU made it a requirement for Western Balkans to reform their economies and political institutions before joining