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After complaining that their satirical new newspaper, Pras Press, had been blocked from reaching news stands, the cartoonists and writers behind it have decided to sell copies directly on the streets.

Experts in Tirana and Pristina say the crisis in Macedonia is mainly about a power struggle over who will form the next government - and say leaders of Albania have a right to take an interest in the fate of other Albanians in the region.

A possible upsurge in the number of refugees and migrants crossing Bosnia and Herzegovina to the West would pose a severe strain on the country's weak resources, experts say.

Bosnians on the margins of society are getting a new start in life, thanks to a programme that give them a chance to play in international football tournaments.

Kosovo's president is mulling ways to bypass a Serb veto on the formation of an army by proposing changes that would broaden the responsibilities of the existing Kosovo Security Force.

The main opposition Social Democrats and Macedonia's ethnic Albanian parties have dismissed VMRO DPMNE leader and former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's call for another general election.

British Foreign Secretary says events in Montenegro show Russia is ‘undermining’ countries in the Western Balkans.

The political crisis in Macedonia is receiving extensive coverage in Serbia, where the media are accusing ethnic Albanians of seeking Macedonia's destruction, terrorism and a 'Greater Albania' with help of the West.

A total of 911 individuals whose names are included in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national register of wartime missing persons are actually alive, and remain on the list by mistake.

It remains unclear how a new government-appointed body which will examine how to deal with the legacy of Croatia’s pro-Nazi and Communist regimes can resolve divisions over the country’s history.

Opposition leader Zoran Zaev says president’s decision to refuse him the mandate to form a new government amounts to an attempted coup.

In a decision that is bound to inflame tensions further, Macedonia's President has refused to award a mandate to form a government to the opposition leader Zoran Zaev, claiming he might use it to destroy the country.

Ukraine officials have blamed the vandalization of a monument to Bulgarian volunteer fighters in the Russo-Turkish war of the 1870s on provocateurs.

Macedonia's VMRO DPMNE party has angrily denied claims that it was to blame for Tuesday's assault on two reporters in Skopje - rounding on the media union leader who made the accusation.

BIRN journalists in Macedonia are being subjected to an incendiary campaign on social networks by supporters of the rightist VMRO DPMNE party.

Albanian athletes will be competing in May for the first time in the games organised under the auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - but some Albanians say a secular European country has no place in such an event.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said his proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission could help to stop ethnic hatred, although some experts have questioned his motives for establishing the body.

Official commemorations of the anniversary of the March 1992 referendum that paved the way for Bosnia’s independence from Yugoslavia have triggered a new legal dispute in the deeply divided state.

Romania has increased its defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP in line with NATO demands - and the country's defence minister has said half of the new funds will go on new equipment. 

Contrary to the hopes of some Serbs that President Donald Trump might change course and favour Belgrade, the new US administration has repeatedly said that it supports Kosovo’s independence.