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Marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of the late actor Bekim Fehmiu, the Albanian and Serbian Prime Ministers have called for continued Serbo-Albanian reconciliation.

Croatian wartime general Branimir Glavas is being retried at the supreme court for war crimes against Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991, although his guilt will not be questioned.

Democratic Party president Bojan Pajtic alleges that PM Aleksandar Vucic is an autocrat posing as a European democrat and says opposition parties should unite against his rule at the next round of elections.

Senior member of China's business delegation to Zagreb says trade could improve - and Croatia could meet some of China's demand for wine, pharmaceuticals and dairy and agricultural products.

One month after President Ivanov’s pardons sparked mass protests, BIRN looks at how the ‘Protestiram’ movement has organised and developed in Macedonia.

Bosnian authorities have refused to reveal details of the recent agreement with the IMF, despite pressure from opposition parties to do so.

Albania is starting to verify around 30,000 questionnaires sent out to officials, concerning their possible criminal pasts. 

Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday rejected a proposed resolution encouraging dialogue between the EU and Russia and calling for an end to EU sanctions.

Kosovo officials claim French investors in the Brezovica ski resort have met a deadline to submit bank guarantees for the project - however, the future of the 410-million-euro scheme still looks unclear.

New PDK leader Kadri Veseli put on a show at his party’s headquarters, welcoming a star from the Big Brother Albania TV show as the newest party member and urging others to follow his lead.

The Belgrade trial of Novak Djukic, already convicted in Sarajevo of ordering a deadly artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, was delayed until further notice because court transcripts haven’t arrived.

The trial of Milan Martic, the leader of rebel Croatian Serbs during wartime, and Milan Celeketic, his military chief-of-staff, started in their absence at a Zagreb court.

Officials in Bosnia have found a neat way to get round public procurement laws and get the exact official limos they want.

Abdullah Nu’man hopes to bridge the gap between the divided Muslim communities in Serbia.

In the latest scandal rocking the Romanian health system, Prosecutors say more than 50 psychiatrists and doctors illegally used their patients as experimental subjects for clinical trials without their consent.

Workers from Bulgaria and Romania from Wednesday have equal access to Swiss jobs, like nationals from other EU member states, but Croatia remains under transitional restrictions. 

Montenegro has tightened restrictions on the arms trade to comply with tough EU demands - and to prevent sold weapons from ending up in conflict zones around the world.

As an EU deadline approaches, leaders of the two main parties seem closer to holding urgently needed talks on deadlocked judicial reforms.

The first legal cannabis products intended to be used in the treatment of many severe illnesses should be available in Macedonian pharmacies from this week, medical officials said.

Civic initiative for Croatia’s education reform has attracted support over 200 organisations that will help in organising protest across the country, as well as New York, London, Paris, Budapest and Shanghai.