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Bosnian leaders approved the establishment of a coordination mechanism that should improve connections between all the country's administrative levels and the EU, a key measure sought by Brussels.

Migrants have increased attempts to illegally cross Macedonia on their way to EU countries since the ‘Balkan route’ was closed in March.

Mourad Hamyd, the brother-in-law of Charlie Hebdo attacker Cherif Kouachi, who was arrested in Bulgaria in July, will be extradited to France, where he is being investigated for alleged terrorism. 

The Serbian Progressive Party in Bosnia is trying to exploit the increasing popularity of Aleksandar Vucic to increase its support, but this may not help it win votes, an expert said.

US Vice-President Joseph Biden offered condolences to the families of 1999 NATO bombing victims and urged Serbia and Kosovo to resolve open issues during a visit to Belgrade.

Adem Grabovci, chief of Kosovo’s ruling parliamentary group, resigned on Tuesday following a series of anti-corruption protests in Pristina.

The Bosnian state prosecution has denied media reports that it has opened an investigation into former Croatian Army commander Ante Gotovina for alleged war crimes.

US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Belgrade for meetings with top officials expected to focus on Serbia’s EU membership ambitions and its relations with Kosovo and Russia.

Two top border police officials have resigned after а suspected people-smuggler won a public tender to transport migrants to accommodation centres inside the country.

FIFA’s decision to allow Kosovo to participate in the 2018 World Cup appears to have encouraged three Kosovo-born players from the Albanian national team to switch allegiance.

A proposal by Serbian Socialist Party politicians to build a monument to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has sparked an outburst of satirical criticism on Twitter.

Disputed claims that the Hague Tribunal said that Slobodan Milosevic was innocent are being trumpeted by Serbian ministers, but analysts believe they are trying to whitewash the country’s wartime past.

In a bid to fight nepotism and politically influenced employment, Kosovo will hire a private company to manage the recruitment process of senior positions in its state institutions.

With an embarrassing team kit scandal and a 60-year low medals haul Romania's Olympic Committee President Alin Petrache on Monday promised to resign after the Rio Games.

The announcement by Croatia’s interior minister that ‘false Serb residents’ of the town of Vukovar will be deleted from its population list, thus enabling the Serbian language and Cyrillic script to be abolished as one of its official languages, has sparked yet another rise in tensions between Belgrade and Zagreb. 

Croatia’s interior minister's statement that after ‘false Serb residents’ from Vukovar are deleted, Serbian may be abolished as official language, has sparked yet another rise in tensions between Belgrade and Zagreb.

Ivanka Trump, whose father is running as the Republican nominee in the US Presidential elections, joins a number of celebrities whose holiday pick for this summer is the Croatian coast.

Around 60 ‘Ficas’ – the small cars modelled on the Italian Fiat 600 that were a symbol of former Yugoslavia - travelled from around Serbia for the ninth annual ‘Fica Festival’ in the central town of Jagodina.

Serbs and Albanians in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo welcomed the start of renovations on its bridge as a sign that normal relations between the city’s residents could be restored.

Woven baskets, a traditional product of Roma artisans in Elbasan, are becoming a must-have accessory thanks to the dedicated work of a group of activists.