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Montenegro’s government handed honorary citizenship in 2014 to a Libyan-born “office manager” and his wife in what appears to have been an as yet unsuccessful attempt to lure investment from an Abu Dhabi sheikh, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network can reveal.

Greece will start sending new migrants back to Turkey from Sunday, European Union and Turkish leaders agreed in a deal intended to address the ongoing refugee crisis.

Did state intelligence or law enforcement help a Serbian tabloid smear independent investigative reporting organisation KRIK in a dirty-tricks campaign to stop revelations about the country’s government?

One of two suspects arrested on charges of financing Islamist militants from Kosovo who are fighting in Syria and Iraq has been remanded in custody.

Almost half a million names on Macedonia's electoral roll of 1.8 million need more verification, the State Electoral Commission said after an initial check-up aimed at weeding out fake voters.

The future of a planned multimillion-euro oil and gas terminal in Albania is now in doubt as the owners, high-profile Balkan businessmen Vojin Lazarevic and Damir Fazlic, face multiple debt recovery and repossession orders.

The exact modalities of voting in the Serbian general elections in Kosovo have yet to be clarified but the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is set to facilitate the process once again.

Camil Durakovic, mayor of the town where an infamous massacre occurred in 1995, is thinking of running for a second mandate despite the cool reaction of the main Bosniak party.

Romania say it is willing to pay 11 million euro to buy a sculpture by the famous Romanian-born artist Constantin Brancusi, which has been the subject of a long legal battle.

The opposition Democratic Party has signed a new contract with the powerful Washington lobbying firm Podesta Group on the eve of its leader Lulzim Basha's visit to the US.

The Hague Tribunal has legal precedents for some of the charges against Radovan Karadzic, but allegations that genocide was committed in 1992 and UN peacekeepers were taken hostage have never been proven by the court.

The war crime trial of former Bosnian Army serviceman Samir Bejtic, which has restarted four times and lasted over 12 years, could cost the state more than 1.5 million euros, his lawyer claimed.

Pro-government tabloid Informer launches fresh attack on the independent media, accusing the investigative portal KRIK of running a dirty campaign against Prime Minister Vucic.

A small Transylvanian village has unexpectedly been put in the international spotlight after US rapper Snoop Dogg made a mistake on Instagram.

NATO patrol ships will arrive in Bar on Friday on a mission to 'enhance maritime security and readiness' in support of the alliance’s counter-terrorism operation, Active Endeavour.

Report of Serbian Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic says the country's Military Security Agency remains under political influence and continues to defy democratic control.

Croatia's public broadcaster has pulled the sartirical show ‘Montirani proces’, claiming it uses 'incites religious, national and other intolerance' - but the show's producers see other motives.

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic evaded capture for over a decade because international forces and the Serbian authorities were unwilling and then unable to arrest him, says British author Julian Borger.

Romania has finally persuaded the EU to grant special status to its coveted Transylvanian salami - but it still has a way to go in getting Europe to recognise its top-quality foodstuffs.

Although John Kasich - who defeated Republican front-runner Donald Trump in Ohio - is of Croatian origin, the media in Croatia seem only half-interested in his success.