Former Yugoslavia

Travel News

The once thriving Balkan holiday resort rising from the ashes of war

Could this bombed-out holiday resort overlooking the Adriatic Sea be restored to its former glory?

13/05/2024

Serbia

Could Serbia bring back the draft?

Serbia's army is proposing bringing back the draft as tensions continue to rise in the Balkan region.

04/01/2024

Europe News

Euroviews. Delors advocated for peace in Europe, and others should too

While Delors’ little-known Yugoslavia episode was overshadowed by the atrocities of the 1990s conflict, he left us a lasting lesson on how European unity could — or should try to — prevent violence and brutality, Aleksandar Brezar writes.

28/12/2023

Sport

Yugoslav and Serbian football star Siniša Mihajlović dies aged 53

The notable defender and midfielder celebrated in Italy's Serie A as a freekick specialist died after a battle with leukaemia, his family said in a statement on Friday.

16/12/2022

Economy

Could a new euro coin help Serbia and Croatia value a shared history?

Both Balkan countries claim that the world-famous inventor is ethnically one of their own. But can Serbia and Croatia find common ground regarding Tesla's heritage after all?

29/11/2022

Serbia

Elizabeth II had warm relations with Yugoslavia despite differences

Karađorđević was born in 1945 in Room 212 of Claridges Hotel, in London with rumours suggesting Winston Churchill declared the room Yugoslav territory for the day so that he could be declared King one day...

09/09/2022

Croatia

'Walk with Tito' tour in Zagreb dives into ex-leader's legacy

The tour in Croatia's capital is aimed at reviewing objectively the legacy of Josip Broz Tito, the former Yugoslavia's Communist leader who still sparks heated debate more than four decades after his death.

07/08/2022

Serbia

Tensions between Croatia and Serbia after memorial visit blocked

Croatian authorities said it was "unacceptable" that they had not been formally notified of the Serbian president's private trip.

18/07/2022

My Europe Series

Long-lost Yugoslav artworks returned to Bosnia by a Serbian collector

More than 30 World War II-era artworks that were stolen from a museum in Jajce, in central Bosnia, finally found their way back home after a collector purchased them at a Vienna flea market.

02/12/2021

My Europe Series

Vukovar at 30: How 'Croatia's Stalingrad' still casts a long shadow

Vukovar, 'Croatia's Stalingrad', saw the first massacre of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It would not be the last.

18/11/2021

My Europe Series

Meet the Romanian football star who straddled the Iron Curtain

Miodrag Belodedici was Eastern European football's lucky charm, winning two Champions League titles in the 1980s. He also witnessed the fall of Ceaușescu and the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.

03/11/2021

Serbia

New Serbian national holiday triggers unease across the Balkans

Serbia kicked off Unity Day with a display of military power and calls for all Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag.

15/09/2021

Kosovo

Kosovo upholds Serb MP conviction for denying 1999 massacre

Ivan Todosijevic was jailed in 2019 for claiming that a massacre of Kosovo Albanians by Serbian forces was fabricated.

25/08/2021

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Families' elation as "Butcher of Bosnia" Ratko Mladić loses appeal

UN judges upheld Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić's life sentence for war crimes on Tuesday.

08/06/2021

Czech Republic

Czech President Milos Zeman apologises to Serbia for 1999 NATO bombing

Czech President Milos Zeman has apologised for the 1999 NATO bombing during a visit to Prague by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

19/05/2021

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Srebrenica: Commemorations to mark 25 years since massacre

Between 7,000 and 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces over a week starting on July 11, 1995. The massacre has been ruled a genocide.

09/07/2020

Croatia

Croatia presidential race to go to runoff on January 5

Conservative incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who is running for a second term, will face a run-off on January 5.

22/12/2019

World News

A history of tension: Serbia-Kosovo relations explained

Euronews looks back at one of Europe's most violent conflicts and the tense relations between two nations still at odds.

28/05/2019

Serbia

Widow of Slobodan Milosevic dubbed 'Lady Macbeth' dies

The widow of Slobodan Milosevic, Mira Markovic, has died in Russia at the age 76. She was dubbed "Lady Macbeth" for being her husband's most trusted adviser and a staunch supporter of his policies.

15/04/2019

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ex-Bosnian Serb chief Karadzic's sentence increased to life in prison

Karadzic was appealing a 2016 verdict in which he was given a 40-year sentence for the Srebrenica massacre in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

20/03/2019