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Most people in Serbia want to join the EU - but do not expect membership - while cherishing a respectful attitude to Russia, a survey by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy shows.

Kosovo President's move to transform the current Security Force into a regular army received a blow on Wednesday after NATO and the US embassy - as well as Serbia - criticised it.

Popular singer Vlado Georgiev, who claimed his recent concert was cancelled because he supports an opposition politician, said that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was wrong to say the event wasn’t censored.

Parties forming the new majority in Macedonia's parliament have agreed that they may summon parliament to elect a new government - without permission from the President.

German MEP and head of European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee David McAllister says there are too many ‘players’ in the Balkans, noting Russia as the biggest concern.

Bulgaria and Romania have joined an outcry against multinational food companies, accused of selling lower quality products in Eastern Europe compared to those offered in the Western supermarkets.

Russian tour operators have noted a rise in interest in holidays in Montenegro compared to last year - despite a furious row over whether the Kremlin tried to organise a coup in the Balkan country.

Josip Grbavac 'Braco', whose admirers include supermodel Naomi Campbell, has amassed an international following with his claims to heal people by simply gazing at them.

The former Soviet country’s energy security remains at risk as Moldova is unable to reform its power sector and to cut links to controversial intermediary companies.

A draft law which would allow people to become unpaid volunteers to assist police officers has been submitted to parliament in an attempt to bolster the fight against crime.

Lazar Stojanovic, who died at the weekend, was commemorated as a politically-committed film-maker, journalist and author who was jailed under communism and opposed the wars of the 1990s.

Serb war veterans condemned the Bosnian Army’s decision to allow a production company to use its tanks and military equipment to shoot a film about the life of controversial Croatian general Ante Gotovina.

Romanian MPs are to discuss by April 25 controversial amendments to a bill that would allow pardons for some corruption convictions - a proposal that sparked major protests across the country. 

If you know where to look, testaments to remarkable female pioneers are etched on several locations in urban Serbia.

As well as a non-functioning parliament and a presidential veto on the formation of a new government, Macedonia may also soon be left without mayors and municipal councils.

In the first visit to Serbia by an Albanian head of state for almost seven decades, President Bujar Nishani was welcomed in ethnic Albanian-majority areas but got a frosty reaction from Belgrade.

Former Bosnian Army serviceman Emir Drakovac was sentenced to 14 years in prison for participating in the murder and mutilation of a civilian and the torture of a Serb soldier in 1992.

The regime of the Serbian Prime Minister has done it best to ensure that Prime Minister Vucic’s rivals in the presidential election remain virtually invisible.

Hate speech, threats and violence against Serbs living in Croatia rose by 57 per cent in 2016, according to a new report by the Serbian National Council.

Appeals hearings will be held this month in the case of six former six Bosnian Croat leaders convicted by the Hague Tribunal of committing war crimes in the short-lived unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna.