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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met Bosnia's tripartite presidency and offered Berlin's help amidst growing signs that Bosnia's path to EU remains blocked.

With another blistering summer already heating up, escaping to one of Serbia’s aqua parks is a great way to cool down.

A group of young Albanians from Korca have been volunteering in Greece - helping refugees whose plight stirs memories of what their own country experienced in its troubled past. 

Opposition in Montenegro demands hearing with top security officials after popular resort of Kotor is on "lockdown" following deadly gang violence.

The Serbian government-funded construction of a housing settlement for Serb refugees in northern Kosovo has angered Kosovo officials, who claim it is an attempt to extend Belgrade’s political influence.

Macedonia’s main parties have either ignored or condemned the decision of a small ethnic Serbian party to sign a declaration in Moscow advocating a 'neutral zone' in the Balkans.

The government is under growing pressure to undertake painful staffing of around 4500 people and pricing reforms in Serbia’s Electric Power Industry, EPS.

The appeals chamber at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to 22 years in prison each.

Belgrade’s premier exhibition hall and its neighbouring four-star hotel are tangled up in one of the world’s biggest ever banking frauds, BIRN has learned.

Croatia has suddenly erected a fence on a bridge on the border with Serbia, reportedly to block the entry of illegal migrants and the activities of people-smugglers.

The final results of the 2013 census of Bosnia, published on Thursday, reveal the changed demographic picture of the country - but Bosnian Serb officials continued to dispute them.

The Kosovo authorities have promised to set up a commission to verify the claims of rape victims from the 1998-99 war soon, but human rights campaigners accused them of acting too slowly.

The EU's rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has become officially operative again after the law extending its mandate was published in Kosovo's official gazette - allowing high-profile trials to resume.

Pro-Russian nationalists clashed with anti-Putin protesters before the arrival of the Russian bikers, the Night Wolves, in the city of Burgas.

The Hague Tribunal is to deliver its final verdict on former senior Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, who were previously convicted of persecuting non-Serbs.

Call by the leader of the opposition Democratic Party for Serbia to join NATO divides the public – and raises questions about his motives.

Moves by the outgoing government to amend the law on sports are dismissed by critics as an attempt to save the discredited management of the Croatian Football Federation.

Bosnia's State Statistical Agency said it will release the complete results of the 2013 census on Thursday, despite continued opposition from the Republika Srpska.

Senior US and EU envoys are expected to launch a diplomatic offensive in Macedonia in early July, aimed at hammering out a new deal on resolving the country's deep political crisis.

A Kosovo court has jailed a Serbian citizen, Slobodan Gavric, who was arrested in Pristina with a vehicle packed with explosive material in an area near the US embassy.