With 360 villas and apartments around an artificial lake, swimming pools, a halal supermarket and a Muslim prayer area, the ‘Sarajevo resort’ is one of Bosnia’s most ambitious residential projects to date, AFP news agency reported.
It is one of dozens of real estate ventures in the picturesque hills surrounding the capital of the Balkan country that are specifically targeting visitors from Gulf states.
The lush greenery of the country has in recent years become a magnet for wealthy Arabs looking to escape the Middle Eastern summer heat. The result has been a massive boost to tourism in what is one of Europe’s poorest countries. Read more.
Deljan Peevski, politician in the Bulgarian Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, has been
called Bulgaria's "iceberg of corruption” in an article published in German weekly newspaper Der Spiegel on his controversial career over the past 15 years.
Author Frank Stier comments that the staggering career of the Bulgarian MP, whose nomination as head of the National Security Agency provoked massive street protests in 2013, “embodies the oligarchic system of clientelism” in Bulgaria.
Listen to a satirical anti-government version of Adele's pop hit 'Hello' performed by Croatian duo Drvena Marija (Wooden Mary) at a protest on Monday in Zagreb.
The Bulgarian penitentiary system is not taking into account the specific needs of female detainees - all of whom are held in a facility in the southeastern city of Sliven - which leads to their "social and geographical isolation" from their family and homes, rigts group Bulgarian Helsinki Committee found in its first survey on problems faced by imprisoned women.
Less than 300 females are in detention in Bulgaria, but 38 per cent have underage children. Of these, 35 per cent live outside their family environment - with relatives, foster families or in childcare institutions - as a result of their mothers' imprisonment.
Prosecutors in the Peja district of western Kosovo say they suspect that two of the four men arrested on Saturday near the famous Serbian Orthodox monastery at Decan are connected to the war in Syria.
According to the prosecution, when the four appeared in a court in Peja, it became clear that one of them had been in the conflict in Syria, while another had been sent back from Istanbul while apparently trying to join the conflict.
Police arrested the four near the monastery alongside KFOR members guarding the historic site. Sava Janjic, abbot of the Visoki Decani monastery, has criticised the police for not treating the incident as terrorism-related.
Politicians in the Balkans frequently accuse the EU of double standards in its dealings with the region. Do they have a point?
In the months-long protests in Serbia, those marching every weekend are not all demonstrating for purely political reasons – but also to raise their voices over other burning everyday problems.