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Despite marked differences over membership of NATO, three centre-left opposition parties have formed a coalition to take on veteran leader Milo Djukanovic in October's election.

Publication of a Turkish black list, naming several agencies, schools and companies in Macedonia as ‘Gulenist’, has left members of those organisations deeply worried.

Despite international criticism and a lack of support from Serbia, the leadership of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska is continuing preparations to hold a controversial referendum, officials said.

US lawyer David Schwendiman has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the new Hague-based Special Court which is expected to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

Amid heightened regional tensions, prosecutors from Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro met to show commitment to achieving justice for war crimes victims, the Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor said.

The trial of ten former Yugoslav Army troops for a massacre of 118 Kosovo Albanian villagers in 1999 was postponed a second time after witnesses from Kosovo did not appear in court.

Croatia’s early parliamentary elections will most likely deliver a similar result to those held last November - with a grand left-right coalition ‘highly unlikely’, experts say.

The increased nationalist rhetoric in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia is a ploy by some politicians to win votes at upcoming elections and by others to distract from economic problems, experts argue.

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

New survey blames high rate of people working in hidden economy in Balkan region on mistrust in state institutions - and unfair tax systems that penalise those on low incomes.

Podgorica is to commit itself to the new anti-terror measures of the Council of Europe, designed to combat radicalism and fighting abroad.

The prosecution office in charge of investigations says its competencies are in limbo because of the incomplete state of judicial reform in Albania. 

Political observer says Kosovo parliament's failure to vote on an agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro has undermined the country's international credibility. 

Parties are increasingly turning to smartphone apps to attract hard-to-reach young voters in the coming general election.

Croatia’s outgoing Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic said that a man held by the Serbian authorities on Friday was not a Croatian spy and called the arrest “a provocation”.

A Belgrade official and a Kosovo Serb leader denied claims that they demanded concessions in return for supporting Pristina’s now-delayed border demarcation deal with Montenegro.

The outgoing parliament was elected on November 8, 2015, but has since been dissolved, with pre-term elections due on September 11.

Unknown vandals wrote threatening graffiti at a memorial to Serbs killed in July 1999 in the Kosovo village of Gracke e Vjeter/Staro Gracke, just weeks after it was visited by President Hashim Thaci.

The outgoing government of Croatia was elected in January 2016, a coalition between the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and the Bridge of Independent Lists coalition (MOST).

Enver Buza, the former commander of a Bosnian Army battalion in Prozor, is accused of failing to punish servicemen who killed 27 Croat civilians during an attack in 1993.