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A new report by a Bosnia-based think-tank, the Social Overview Service, warns time is running out to address damaging political divisions and economic woes and secure the country’s path towards the EU.

Mirko Nahmijas makes art out of New Belgrade’s Soviet brutaliststyle buildings.

As summer and high temperatures approach, Belgrade lakes and pools are slowly opening up to embrace locals and tourists.

Despite a court order, former Bosnian Serb fighter Slavko Savic has failed to pay 15,000 euros in compensation to a woman he raped in Vogosca near Sarajevo during wartime.

Serb representatives reject a Kosovo government initiative to enable the census of Kosovo Serbs living in four northern municipalities.

Left to crumble and molder for decades, a remnant of Bulgaria’s past is gaining new life thanks to an international resurgence in popularity.

BHRT, Bosnia's public broadcaster, has made a last-minute deal with the European Broadcasting Union allowing it to show matches from the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Bosnia is performing fewer vital organ transplants than neighbouring countries because of its complicated system of government and inadequate attempts to persuade people to become donors, experts say.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic admitted that senior Belgrade officials were behind the nocturnal demolitions of buildings by masked men in April which have sparked demonstrations.

Albania’s prime minister and interior minister strongly criticised the prosecutors and judge who approved the suspension of the country’s police chief over illegal wiretapping allegations.

The German envoy sent to help resolve the Macedonian crisis, Johannes Haindl, said there was a way out if guidelines from last year's EU-brokered agreement are followed, but warned time was running out.

Former state security official Franko Simatovic, who could reveal the secret service’s role in the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija, again failed to appear as a witness in court.

A spate of bombings by Islamic State and Kurdistan Workers’ Party is wreaking havoc with Turkey’s tourist sector, prompting holidaymakers to look elsewhere.

European Commission officials carried out inspections at the premises of Romgaz, OMV Petrom and Transgaz, key players in the natural gas sector, on suspicion that they violated anti-trust rules.

Around 70 per cent of children living on the outskirts of Albania’s towns and in rural areas have suffered violent abuse, suggests a new report by international charity World Vision.

Turkey’s row with Germany over its Armenian genocide resolution could result in more refugees being allowed by Ankara to take the ‘Balkan route’ to Europe, experts claim.

The divided Islamic community in Serbia is at a crossroads which could lead either to further divisions or to unification.

Former journalist Goran Danilovic is in the hot seat as Montenegro’s new police minister; as opposition representative, he’s expected to expose alleged electoral fraud, stymie attacks on the media and hasten a showdown with criminal gangs with only four months remaining until a new election.

Bosnian authorities failed to reach an agreement on a coordinated management system for the government, a discord that could cost the country a chance at EU candidacy.

The Bulgarian Patriarchate’s last-moment decision not to attend the Holy Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Greece has raised questions about its independence from Moscow.