Balkan Legal News – 9 April 2025
- Ned Vucijak
- Apr 9
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 16
The following media round-up on international, legal and foreign policy issues from around the Balkans for the period from 01 April to 08 April 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.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 8 April 2025
High Representative Christian Schmidt stated for Austrian media that the sanctions which that country, together with Germany, imposed on the president of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH)entity Republika Srpska (RS), he sees as the beginning of a new “coalition of the willing.” The full article can be found here.
Serbia – 7 April 2025
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has nominated a politically inexperienced endocrinologist and university professor as prime minister, amid massive ongoing protests. The full article can be found here.
Romania – 7 April 2025
A new Human Rights Watch report says women in Romania face growing obstacles to accessing their legal rights to terminations, contraception and sexual and reproductive health information. The full article can be found here.
Kosovo – 04 April 2025
The number of indictments for sexual abuse during the Kosovo war rose last year, a new report says - warning that a lack of judicial cooperation with Serbia continues to hinder justice. The full article can be found here.
Croatia – 4 April 2025
The remains of nine Croatian soldiers and seven civilians killed after the fall of Vukovar in 1991 were formally identified and the families informed on Friday at a ceremony attended by the Minister for Veterans and Chief State Attorney.
The full article can be found here.
Serbia – 4 April 2025
Eighty students and academics on bikes who started a “journey of hope” from Novi Sad to Strasbourg reached Hungary. Their aim is to address the Council of Europe and other European institutions in Strasbourg on the ongoing protests in Serbia.
The full article can be found here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 3 April 2025
The General Secretariat of Interpol rejected a request to issue a red notice (international warrant) for the President of the Bosnian entity Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik and the Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, Nenad Stevandić.
The full article can be found here.
North Macedonia – 2 April 2025
After a nightclub blaze killed 59 people on March 16, North Macedonia’s parliament approved a law change banning the use of pyrotechnics in enclosed spaces.
The full article can be found here.