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The influential football official may have quit his posts in Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatian Football Federation – but is likely to remain in the national spotlight for some time to come.

Statistics showing that none of 20 most popular names in Albania for newborn children are Albanian have some experts worried about a steady erosion of the national identity.

Bosniak representatives in the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska are calling on the High Representative to stop a referendum there on the entity's national holiday.

Rights activists say Serbia's stricter policies towards refugees on the borders are creating fresh dilemmas that will be hard to address.

Syrian Mohammad Daleel, who blew himself up near a music festival in Germany, complained of living on the streets with no money as a refugee in Bulgaria on national television in 2013.

The current prime minister has held the most senior political roles in Albania, yet he insists he is anything but a career politician.

The head of Macedonia’s lustration commission said the Administrative Court had undermined its work by annulling most of the the commission’s actions.

Serbia's Prime Minister-Designate is having difficulty reconciling opposing pressures from both East and West to put their candidates in the new government, analysts and members of the old government say.

Row over schools operated by alleged Turkish coup leader could spark new conflicts and aggravate divisions in Bosnia according to experts.

The Kosovo Special Prosecution indicted an Iranian citizen on terrorism-financing charges for allegedly hiding suspect funds of an Islamic NGO from authorities.

Turkey's embassy in Kosovo has urged the government to take action against a journalist over tongue-in-cheek Facebook comments he made about the failed military coup in Turkey.

Most eastern European cities have renamed their streets since the fall of communism, but in Belgrade the process has been especially radical.

A number of experts say hopes that German-style vocational training will bring down youth unemployment are misplaced.

A German bank loan of 50 million euros opens the way for the construction of 126km high voltage 400kV line from Elbasan in Albania to Bitola in Macedonia, designed to integrate the energy trade in the region.

The Mayor of the Skopje Municipality of Centar, Andrej Zernovski, a known opponent of the government revamp of the city, is to testify on Tuesday before the Special Prosecution - which is investigating possible crimes related to the makeover.

The ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party plans to revive its activities in Montenegro ahead of the October elections, promising a tough campaign against EU and NATO membership.

The new head of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, said the party will run alone in September's parliamentary elections without its partners from the Patriotic Coalition.

The Balkans today are caught between Brexit and bloody showdown in Turkey. These are the new European geo-strategic coordinates that we need to be aware of.

The Syrian who blew himself up near a music festival in Ansbach on Sunday had been facing deportation to Bulgaria, according to the German authorities.

The endless-seeming arguments over Cardinal Stepinac’s life and actions are a depressing reminder that World War II remains unfinished business in parts of the former Yugoslavia.