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With more elections on the horizon – possibly yet another parliamentary election – 2017 could be eerily similar to 2016 in Serbian politics.

Analysts question NATO’s strategy of focusing on building up forces on its eastern flank - while ignoring growing Russian-inspired tensions in the Balkans.

The number of Albanians seeking asylum in Germany fell sharply in 2016 compared to the previous year, apparently deterred by the low success rate and tough repatriation policies.

Top Croatian energy expert expresses doubt about claims that the energy company INA can retake control over its abandoned oil and gas fields in war-torn Syria.

Misa Vacic, an activist of the far-right 1389 Movement and an employee of the Serbian government's Kosovo Office, has been accused of threatening an NGO activist on Facebook.

The excitement of the holiday season may be subsiding, but political life in the Balkans is only just heating up. 

The Republika Srpska government said it cut communications with Bosnia’s High Representative Valentin Inzko after he reportedly compared the entity’s banned ‘statehood day’ celebrations to commemorations of a Croatian WWII-era Nazi puppet state.

The sudden departure of a number of prominent journalists is causing unease about a possible loss of political balance in Albania's mainstream media.

The Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI, has hired the services of US lobbysists McKeon Group to secure an invitations to attend Donald Trump's inauguration and meet high-level US politicians afterwards.

Kosovo Liberation Army commander turned politician Ramush Haradinaj, arrested in France over Serbian war crimes charges, has been released from custody while Belgrade’s extradition request is being considered.

The war in Syria has created tensions in Bulgaria's Syrian community, one of the largest in Eastern Europe, and given some members a pretext to seek asylum elsewhere.

The US Senate's Foreign Relations Committee has approved a resolution supporting Montenegro's membership of NATO, sending it to the full Senate for a vote.

Migrants keep coming to Serbia but survival is getting tougher as the border with Hungary is now almost impossible to cross without paying the smugglers dear.

New general elections and the implementation of judicial reform will determine the orientation of a new government as well as affecting the country's EU perspectives.

Calls for the EU and US to support the further “fragmentation” of Balkan states “where minorities demand it” are highly irresponsible and can only lead to more bloodshed.

Croatian experts fear Slovenia's planned changes to the Aliens Act, heralding stricter procedures towards refugees and asylum seekers, could create problems for it.

Rights campaigners accused President Tomislav Nikolic of promoting nationalism and undermining Bosnia’s sovereignty after he met Momcilo Krajisnik, a Bosnian Serb politician convicted of war crimes.

An explosive device was thrown at the government building in northern, Serb-run part of the divided town of Mitrovica in Kosovo on Tuesday.

The owner of the Bosnian shoe factory that sent specially designed shoes to Melania Trump has had 'sleepless nights' since receiving an invitation to go to Washington for one of the inaugural balls.

Rajko Krickovic, a retired soldier from the Croatian Army’s 118th Home Guard Regiment, went on trial for war crimes committed after Croatia military’s Operation Storm in August 1995.