Serbia ranked 90th on the list of 180 countreis on the 2019 World Press Freedom Index, dropping 14 places from the previous year. The report emphasises that since Aleksander Vučić came to power, media freedom has been significantly reduced, and“Serbia has become a place where practicing journalism is neither safe nor supported by the state”. […]

Croatian tourism industry recorded a total of EUR 10.1bn in revenues last year, up 6.4% from the previouys year (EUR 9.5bn). “For the first time in Croatian tourism, revenue from foreign tourists exceeded EUR 10bn for the first time ever. When we add the revenue from the domestic tourists, the total figure amounts to EUR 12bn […]

European Parliament has voted to continue negotiations for the visa liberalisation process with Kosovo. Tanja Fajon, the European parliament’s spokeswoman said in a statement that “it is high time that European governments stop the blockade (of the visa liberalisation for Kosovo)”. She added that it’s now up to the EU Council to decide. “A good majority in […]

A member of Serbia’s ruling SNS party, Nebojsa Stefanović, said that it would be possible to hold early elections in Serbia in June this year. However, he also added that another possibility is to hold them in the spring next year. According to Serbia’s daily Večernje Novosti, the interior minister said the final date will […]

Due to an improved situation in the budget and economic recovery, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) raised its sovereign credit ratings for Croatia to ‘BBB-/A-3’ from ‘BB+/B’. This puts the country’s rating back into the investment category after six years. In a statement, S&P said that “the upgrade reflects Croatia’s improving fiscal metrics, underpinned by its recent […]

Slovenia has received three binding bids for the 100% stake in state-owned lender Abanka, including an offer from Serbia’s AIK Banka, Slovenia’s daily Finance reports. Other bidders include Hungary’s OTP Group and US investment fund Apollo. The deadline for placing binding bids expired on March 19. Apollo already owns Slovenia’s second largest bank, Nova KBM while this week […]

Radovan Karadžić, the former president of Bosnian Serbs, was sentenced to life in prison at an appeals court in The Hague after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2016, Karadžić was found guilty on 10 counts includinggenocide in Srebrenica, persecution of Bosniaks and […]