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After a 111-year-old woman was found still listed on Montenegro's electoral roll, civil society organizations say errors on the register could influence the result of the October elections.

05 Oct 16 Montenegro Hospital Privatisation Plan Angers Doctors The Montenegrin doctors’ union said government plans to allow foreign private companies to manage public hospitals mean that profit will be put before people’s health. Dusica Tomovic BIRN Podgorica    Patients queue for hours to schedule a doctor’s appointment in Montenegro. Photo: BIRN. Patients queue for hours to schedule a doctor’s appointment | Photo: BIRN. – See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/financial-crisis-threatens-health-care-in-montenegro-04-11-2016#sthash.B3zqDQz9.dpuf The Montenegrin Health Ministry has dismissed criticism by the Union of Medics, which claims that public healthcare in the country will be subjected to the whims of the free market after the government announced plans to ask private companies to manage […]

Nothing is royal, this are only stupids bandits Villa Zogu: des Albanischen „Königs Hauses“ wurde 518.000 € versteigert – Anschlag auf Georg Soros: Mafia Finanzierungs Instrument: „BESA“  Langzeit Skandal der illegalen Bauten in der „Burg von Tirana“, des Gangsters Alban Xhillari, von Leka Zogu Feature 05 Oct 16 Albania Prepares for Historic Royal Wedding Prince Leka, the grandson of King Zog, will get married this weekend in Tirana in the country’s second-ever royal wedding, which royalists hope will revive the legacy of the Albanian monarchy. Fatjona Mejdini BIRN Albania Prince Leka and his fiancee Elia Zaharia. Photo: Prince Leka’s Facebook Profile On April 27, 1938, Albania hosted its first royal […]

A new European-backed programme is being launched to help Bosnian institutions to use laws aimed at tackling widespread cases of  discrimination in the country.

Students from Macedonia’s oldest and biggest state-run university are holding an unofficial referendum on Wednesday, aimed at improving the transparency of student bodies.

Amid the country’s ongoing political crisis, the ethnic Albanian opposition sees a chance to win advantage by joining forces for December’s elections - but is wary of any coalition with ethnic Macedonian parties.

A group of around 350 refugees and migrants began a protest march from the Serbian capital to the border, demanding to be allowed to pass freely into Hungary.

Opposition-proposed bills to improve witness protection and boost the Special Prosecution, which tackles high-level crime, failed to pass after the ruling VMRO DPMNE voted against them.

The US deported a former Bosnian Serb military officer and his wife to Serbia after they were convicted of lying about the man’s activities in the 1992-95 war to gain immigration benefits.

Parliament chief Tsetska Tsacheva could be become the first female president of Bulgaria after being nominated by PM Boyko Borissov, who said she should be the ‘mother’ of the nation.

Five people who were convicted of war crimes, corruption, kidnapping and abuse of office have been elected as mayors in municipal polls in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The speaker of parliament and leader of Albania’s third-largest party previously served as prime minister aged just 30, but Meta’s rapid political ascent has been marred by controversy.

The BIRN journalist who has received various death threats since being labelled an enemy spy and a foreign mercenary is in no mood to back down.

Two months ahead of the general elections, the opposition has dismissed the ruling party's list of campaign pledges - which include hefty pension rises and hundreds of new kindergartens - as fairytales.

Berichte über Wahlfälschungen in Bosnien-Herzegowina 03. 10. 2016 Bosnien-Herzegowina, ethnische Aufteilung – Fotoquelle: pinterest.com Eine Woche nach dem umstrittenen Referendum der bosnischen Serben haben in Bosnien-Herzegowina landesweite Kommunalwahlen begonnen. Laut Medienberichten kam es wieder zu schweren Wahlfälschungen. Nach Angaben der Opposition sollen Stimmen für Beträge zwischen umgerechnet 25 und 200 Euro verkauft worden sein, aber auch gegen größere Mengen an Grundnahrungsmitteln oder den Erlass von Schulden. In Mostar durften rund 90.000 Bürger überhaupt nicht wählen, weil sich die völlig zerstrittenen muslimischen Bosnier nicht mit den katholischen Kroaten und den orthodoxen Serben einigen konnten. Seit 2008 gibt es daher hier keine Kommunalwahlen und nur eine Stadtverwaltung im Übergang. Aus diesem Grunde konnten […]

War victims are launching an appeal in The Hague, calling for the Netherlands to be held responsible for the deaths of all the Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995.

Kosovo on Monday refused to allow Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government’s Kosovo office, into the country, having ordered him out in September for breaking the protocol on Serbian official visits.

After the Serbian daily Politika said it would reinstate its sacked caricaturist, Dusan Petricic, following the PM's intervention, a media union says this only highlights the government's close relationship to the media.

Viktor Orban’s failure to bring out of the voters in his slanted referendum on migrants suggests that the anti-migrant backlash may have passed its peak.

The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, the ruling party in the Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, has regained its dominant position following local elections.