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Kosovo’s efforts to privatise state companies from the Yugoslav era have continued to face strong opposition from Serbia, which has been seeking to assert control over key assets in its former province.

Former British MI6 agent and expert in conflicts Alastair Crooke said in Belgrade that Europe must brace itself for fresh waves of refugees - and for the further rise of populist politics.

Trade between Albania and Serbia is growing steadily, albeit from a low base - and the disparity between what Serbia sells to Albania, and what Albania sells to Serbia, remains huge.

The election of Macedonia’s chief prosecutor for organized crime, Jovan Ilievski, as Macedonia’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights has attracted strong criticism at home.

Early results of Sunday’s elections in Montenegro showed the ruling party led by veteran Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic won the parliamentary polls, amid rumours of an alleged ’terror’ plot and irregularities.

In Montenegro's parliamentary election battle on Sunday, veteran leader Milo Djukanovic, who has ruled the country for 27 years, faces a tough challenge to win a seventh term as Prime Minister. Stay tuned for all the latest developments, election results and reactions as Montenegro  goes to the polls to elect a new government. 

Starting from 7am on Sunday, about half a million voters will have a chance to decide on a new government, as the country heads into the most uncertain election in its recent history.

A naturalized American of Serbian origin, Vladimir Rajcic finds himself in the middle of a row about an allegedly fake interview with US presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Francesco Florit, a former judge with the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, was interviewed by the state prosecution and denied allegations that he took a bribe from a suspect in a murder case.

Montenegrins want change at this weekend’s parliamentary elections, but the elite that has ruled for nearly three decades has tried to manipulate the political process to ensure it remains in power.

The office of US Republican candidate Donald Trump has dismissed claims that he told a Serbian media outlet in an interview that he regretted US-led airstrikes against Serbia in 1999.

Kosovo diplomats and experts have welcomed the Council of Europe's decision to grant a Kosovo delgration observer status as an important step towards full membership.

The lustration law that sanctioned Macedonians declared to be former Communist secret police collaborators has been scrapped, but dozens of lawsuits are underway to reverse its allegedly politically-motivated decisions.

Ahead of parliamentary elections due in December, a series of strikes over pay in the public sector threatens to batter Romania's technocratic government.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn's visit to Skopje on Friday is aimed at securing the December 11 early election date, which he says is only the first step towards leading the country out of its current crisis.

Bulgarian experts say the new 'protest vote' option on ballot papers could end up favouring the chances of the leading candidate in the presidential elections.

The Croatian parliament holds its first session on Friday - before the new centre-right government, led by the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, has been voted in.

The vice-president of the ruling party, Dusko Markovic, tells BIRN that the DPS will romp home again in ‘absolutely fair and free’ elections on Sunday.

Bulgaria remains convinced it can become the gas distribution hub for the Balkans - despite Turkey’s own, more advanced, plans. 

The launch on Friday of a joint Serbia-Albania Chamber of Commerce in Nis is intended to enliven currently weak economic ties between the two countries - but not everyone expects it to succeed.