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The leader of the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, said his party has yet to decide whether to help Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO DPMNE party form a new government.

Kosovo’s government remains without a European integration minister because the ruling coalition has yet not proposed anyone, causing the European Parliament to voice its concern.

The Croatian National Bank wants to introduce the euro, but an economics expert warned that the public debt and current state budget are not favourable for such a move at the moment.

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is to vote on ratifying Montenegro's NATO accession on Wednesday, although some Americans claim that accepting the tiny Balkan country could further damage ties with Russia.

A surprise meeting between Moldova’s new pro-Moscow president and the leader of separatist Transnistria triggered controversy over whether it was a political gambit or a sign of growing Russian involvement.

Albanians worldwide have become involved in a protest campaign over the detention in France of former Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj - causing an angry reaction from Serbia, which requested his arrest.

The arrest in France of Kosovo’s ex-PM Ramush Haradinaj on a Serbian warrant highlighted how continuing enmity and lack of cooperation between Belgrade and Pristina means war criminals are not facing trial.

Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity’s celebration of its disputed ‘Statehood Day’ triggered a new wave of ethnic and political slurs from Bosnian Serb and Bosniak politicians and media.

An investigation will ask why members of the armed forces participated in a divisive holiday celebration in the Republika Srpska entity, contravening orders from the Ministry of Defence.

The government has vowed to take action after a report revealed a massive increase in the number and sophistication of hacking attacks in Montenegro in 2016 on portals and websites of state institutions.

After a year of political turbulence, Croatia expects more stability in its politics, economy and foreign relations in 2017, although the local elections could pose a test.

Martin Shkreli, who once described himself as 'the most successful Albanian on earth' - and gained infamy for hiking the price of an AIDS drug - is back in hot water after being barred from Twitter for trolling a journalist.

New EU reports on Kosovo and Serbia list judicial issues, media freedom, corruption, organized crime and political polarization as the chief obstacles slowing their path to EU membership.

Celebrations in the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska saw a ratcheting up of independence rhetoric as well as high-level spats over the participation of members of the country’s armed forces.

Jovan Tintor, a wartime politician and former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, went on trial for crimes against humanity against Bosniaks and Croats in the Vogosca area in 1992.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighters Mensur Djakic and Begzad Kajtazi were charged with committing crimes against Serb civilians in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko municipality in 1992.

VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski has 20 days starting Monday to try to form a new government after the country's President offered him a mandate.

Heavy snow has left many villages and roads snowed in across the Balkans, while schools are on a prolonged winter break as the authorities try to contain outbreaks of flu.

Following a series of verbal attacks on its neighbours by Belgrade, Serbia’s hopes of becoming a ‘factor of stability’ in the region are fast fading.

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