Bulgaria is set to assume the EU presidency from January 2018.
Bulgaria, the EU’s poorest member state, wants to set a clearer path towards membership for its fellow Western Balkans in an effort to prevent…
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since…
Ivan Stambolic
Ivan Stambolic was the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of Serbia. He was first a friend and ally…
The Fall of Milosevic
Yugoslavia disappeared from the map after 83 years of existence. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up into constituent republics. The final two…
War Crimes
Mass violence resulted in ethnic cleansing, deportation, murders, torture, rape, concentration camps, devastation of villages, besieged cities, destruction of cultural and religious monuments and…
Death of Milosevic
Milosevic, who presided over wars and slaughter in which more than 250,000 people died, was found dead in his prison cell, cheating justice for…
Life After Dayton
After the Dayton Peace Accords were signed in December 1995, the fighting stopped but peace was never fully achieved. The agreement was supposed to…
After Dayton – Significant Events
1996 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a United Nations court of law established to handle the war crimes that took place…
A New Year for Western Balkans
If 2016 is marked by the Brexit referendum, Donald Trump rise to power and the increase in Euroscepticism, then 2017 was an improvement. It…
Timeline – The Bosnian War
1992 1st March Bosnia’s Muslims and Croats vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum boycotted by the majority of the Serbs 3rd March…