New Croatian government to implement big business measures
The newly elected Social Democratic-led coalition in Croatia will step up the austerity measures demanded by the financial markets.
The newly elected Social Democratic-led coalition in Croatia will step up the austerity measures demanded by the financial markets.
The political deadlock in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) represents the systemic failure of the entire official political framework in the region and a foreign policy disaster for the state's international backers, the US and EU.
The record levels of unemployment across Europe are overshadowed by the figures available for the Balkans, where more than 50 percent of young people are without work.
Tensions remain high after violent clashes broke out again at the end of last month on the Kosovo-Serbia border.
Since the beginning of the year many people have gone on hunger strikes throughout Montenegro, the smallest of the states emerging after the breakup of Yugoslavia, with a population of around 620,000.
Five years after nominal independence, the social and political situation in Montenegro belies the claim that the break-up of Yugoslavia into “independent” states represented anything progressive.
Social discontent and anger is palpable in Serbia, as protests grow among farmers and sections of workers in defence of their jobs.