Balkan Legal News – 25 June 2025
- Ned Vucijak
- Jun 25
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 2
The following media round-up on international, legal and foreign policy issues from around the Balkans for the period from 18 June to 24 June 2025.
Guernica 37 will provide weekly media updates with a focus on Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Should you wish to contribute or submit a media summary, opinion piece or blog, please send to Ned Vucijak at nenadv@guernica37.com for consideration.
Serbia – 23 June 2025
Serbia sent record amounts of arms to Israel last year. But President Aleksandar Vucic said that since Israel attacked Iran, such exports have been stopped.
The full article can be found here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 23 June 2025
Bringing back an idea from 2019 and citing a lack of police officers, the Republika Srpska government voted in favour of law amendments allowing the Serb entity to establish a controversial reservist police force.
The full article can be found here.
Romania – 20 June 2025
After missing Friday's deadline, Romania faces action from Brussels unless it comes up with a plan by autumn to cut the budget deficit from 9.3 per cent of GDP to 7 per cent.
The full article can be found here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 20 June 2025
The Appeals Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state court upheld the verdict convicting Mustafa Stovrag of assaulting three prisoners at a military investigation prison in Gorazde in February 1993 and jailing him for three years.
The full article can be found here.
Croatia – 19 June 2025
Welcoming Indian PM Narendra Modi's groundbreaking visit to Zagreb, Andrej Plenkovic proposed economically beneficial links between the Three Seas Initiative, to which Croatia belongs, and the Indian-Middle East Economic Corridor.
The full article can be found here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 18 June 2025
The Exhibition “From Words to Violence: Lives Behind the Fields of Death” opened on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in eastern Bosnia.
The full article can be found here.
Montenegro – 18 June 2025
As Israel and Iran continued to exchange fire, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East, several Balkan countries have transported their citizens home by plane.
The full article can be found here.
