by CBBSS | Jul 23, 2021 | Regional News
A Croatian court annulled the 1946 treason conviction of Catholic Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac who initially supported the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during World War II, the BBC reports. Stepinac died int 1960. The Croatian court ruled he did not receive a fair trial. The...
by CBBSS | Jul 20, 2021 | Regional News
Bulgaria arrested hundreds of migrants in special police operations this week, Balkan Insight reports. Police arrested 162 migrants in Sofia, and they stopped 45 migrants from crossing into Serbia. The migrants arrested on the Bulgarian-Serbian border were reportedly...
by CBBSS | Jul 19, 2021 | Regional News
As part of membership negotiations, the EU is requiring that Serbia cooperate with its Balkan neighbors on war crimes issues, Balkan Insight reports. Croatia had been blocking Serbia’s EU accession bid and mandating that Belgrade change a law that allows it to...
by CBBSS | Jul 13, 2021 | Regional News
More than 1,000 migrants have now piled up on the Serbian side of the Serbia-Hungary border, AP reports. Migrants are crossing through Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia and then getting turned away by Hungary, which is only allowing 15 people to apply for asylum daily and...
by CBBSS | Jul 11, 2021 | Regional News
Belgrade says the Balkan migrant routes still exists since 102,000 migrants passing through Serbia have been registered since the beginning of 2016, bne IntelliNews reports. The Balkan route has officially been closed since March, but smugglers have been transporting...