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Head of Serbia's European Movement, an NGO, says growing criticism by Serbian officials of the EU is undermining people's support for - and understand of - the European project.

Bulgarian MEPs want Europe to pressurise Albania to recognise the existence of a Bulgarian community - although whether this community does actually exist remains controversial.

An indictment for abuse of office against the new chief of the Kosovo intelligence agency was withdrawn only days before he was appointed to head the agency, BIRN heas learned.

While massive street protests have traumatised the ruling Social Democrats, experts say the discontent reveals something wrong at a structural level with Romanian political parties in general.

Politicians in the Balkans condemned Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for suggesting that Serbia and Kosovo swap territory and for claiming that Macedonia is not a state.

At the launch of his new book on his encounters with the former Serbian leader, Sir Ivor Roberts recalls a man who was wily and intelligent but who had “no long-term strategy”.

Zagreb police have moved Saturday's planned protest against the militarisation of society away from the Defence Ministry, while a rival group supporting reintroduction of military service will be in front of the building.

A Croatian court ordered the state to pay compensation to former Yugoslav pilot Tomislav Bozovic for his suffering in the Kerestinec military prison near Zagreb during the 1990s war.

Bosniak leader Bakir Izetbegovic said experts will study the legal merits of an appeal against an International Court of Justice judgment that cleared Serbia of complicity in the Srebrenica genocide.

Former UK ambassador to Belgrade says exchange of territory may be only way to stabilize relations between Serbia and Kosovo.

Despite the lack of hard information on the ongoing talks between the main opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, and the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, reports of a possible deal on forming a government continue to grow.

In the first trial of its kind in Serbia, eight former Bosnian Serb police officers appeared in court charged with involvement in the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

After violent incidents marred the local elections four months ago in Stolac, new elections are being organized in the southern Bosnian town, where divisions between Croats and Bosniaks remain raw.

The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre has filed a criminal complaint accusing Bosnian Serb Army servicemen of detaining and killing prisoners of war at Mount Igman in Bosnia in 1993.

The Serbian Democratic Party, the main opposition party in Republika Srpska, has called for an investigation into entity’s spending on lobbying in the US, which many say did little good.

Protests in Romania are continuing a day after the cabinet repealed its controversial corruption decree - and after well over half a million people took to the streets on Sunday.

Croatian NGO In the Name of the Family filed a request for the rehabilitation of academic Filip Lukas, who was convicted by the Communists for his connections to the country’s WWII-era fascist government.

A rally in front of the Romanian embassy in Sofia - held in solidarity with the anti-corruption protests in Romania - has reawakened memories of a similar event held in December 1989.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Big foreign food retail chains continuing to enlarge their share of the market in Croatia will not result in consumers finding cheaper products on the shelves, an expert has warned.