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Montenegro’s government will give a mainly Albanian-populated area long-sought municipal status among other concessions after ethnic Albanian politicians helped the ruling party gain a parliamentary majority.

Croatian women struggle to exercise their right to abortion, driven into the shadows and illegality by the rise of a hostile conservatism.

Romania vowed to continue supporting Moldova on its path to EU integration even though the newly-elected Eurosceptic Moldovan president criticised Bucharest’s interference in his country’s affairs.

The lawyer for Sami Lushtaku, a former guerrilla commander who is now mayor of Skenderaj/Srbica, filed a complaint to Kosovo’s Supreme Court against his conviction for war crimes.

Serbian interior minister Nebojsa Stefanovic asked a Belgrade court to order news magazine NIN to pay compensation over an article saying he should take the blame for controversial demolitions in the city’s Savamala district.

A rights group has filed criminal complaints to the state prosecutor over honours given by the Bosnian Serb authorities to convicted war criminals including Radovan Karadzic.

Croatia has started setting up a joint special air force with Slovenia, Hungary and Bulgaria, which could be used for fighting terrorism in northern Africa or the Mediterranean.

As official figures show tourist numbers rising in Bosnia and Herzegovina, conflict-themed attractions in Sarajevo like the War Hostel and Tunnel of Hope show that the 1992-95 siege continues to fascinate visitors.

Ali Rexha, Kosovo Special Prosecutor, said the prosecution merely followed the law when it decided not to prosecute all the companies involved in a massive tax scam revealed by BIRN with the help of a whistleblower.

After a number of police officers in Macedonia were sacked for claiming fake diplomas, experts wonder just how many officers with dodgy diplomas are still working in the force.

The civic society network BCSDN in a new report has called on the European Commission to deepen its commitment to civil society groups and initiatives in the Balkan region.

Deutche Telecom said its Macedonian daughter company is cooperating with probes by Macedonia's Special Prosecution, as it seeks evidence related to the wiretapping claims that have rocked the country.

A large number of Serbian intellectuals, writers, artists and public figures have urged Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic - who has frequently crossed swords with the government - to run as President in 2017.

As election day looms in December, new news websites linked to Macedonia's ruling party have recently started producing false news reports designed to discredit the opposition.

Police and refugees have been hospitalized following violent clashes in Bulgaria’s largest refugee camp in the southeastern town on Harmanli on Thursday evening.

An investigation by the Ministry of Health, which found that Romanian transplant clinics were not equipped for such surgeries, has triggered a row about organ-trading.

The Croatian authorities exhumed the remains of 18 bodies from a cemetery in the coastal town of Zadar - Croatian Serbs who died during or after the military operation ‘Storm’ in 1995.

The Bosnian prosecution filed an indictment against former Bosnian Serb soldier Zarko Vukovic, accusing him of raping a Bosniak woman several times during wartime in the Foca area.

Legal experts and Montenegro’s opposition parties have criticised a court’s decision to grant "protected witness" status to Aleksandar Sindjelic, the main suspect in a plot to kill Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.

After spending two months with members of the Salafi movement in Bosnia, social psychologist Srdjan Puhalo says it is time to stop demonizing the community as terrorists.