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Romania’s Justice Minister on Friday rejected all the candidates for the post of chief prosecutor of the country’s anti-corruption agency, saying none of them met the requirements.

For better or worse, much of the news from the Balkans is still focused on NATO, whether it be US President Donald Trump’s latest gaffes on Montenegro or the geopolitical implications and tussles over Macedonia’s impending accession to the alliance. 

Donald Niebyl, a biologist from the US, created the Spomenik Database to tell the stories behind Yugoslav World War II memorials - but locals were sometimes bemused by his enthusiasm for these long-neglected monuments.

Ilan Shor’s run for parliament could effectively keep him out of jail as the convicted mastermind of a $1 billion theft that almost bankrupted Moldova.

While Kosovo’s President calls for a consensus on the political dialogue with Serbia, the technical delegation's chief has again insisted that Serbia must implement all outstanding agreements if it wants to continue talks.

The sterlet sturgeon of the Danube outlived the dinosaurs, but can the ancient species survive Serbian appetites and the illegal fishing trade that serves them?

A Belgrade court has refused to rehabilitate Serbia’s Nazi-backed leader – but his memory remains deeply divisive in a country where some still insist he did nothing wrong.

The Appellate Chamber of Bosnia's State Court confirmed the first-instance verdict acquitting Brane Planojevic of committing war crimes against civilians at Rasadnik camp in Rogatica in 1993 and 1994.

The dominant position of Russian-language media has left Moldova the most vulnerable country in Eastern Europe to Kremlin propaganda, a new study claims.

Bosnia's State Court has acquitted three former Bosnian Serb soldiers – charged with the murder of Bosniaks in Kozarac in June 1992 – for lack of evidence.

Romanian activists and politicians demanded Agriculture Minister Petre Daea's resignation on Thursday, after he compared killing and burning sick pigs to the Nazi-run Auschwitz concentration camp. 

After parliament finally appointed a new electoral commission, Macedonia is starting initial preparations for the autumn referendum on its historic 'name' deal with Greece.

The Belgrade Higher Court has dismissed the request of Milan Nedic's family to rehabilitate the leader of Serbia’s Nazi-backed World War II puppet government.

Kosovo prosecutors are discussing amending the criminal procedure code so that they could try war crimes suspects in absentia, as an extradition deal with Serbia seems unlikely.

Free movement across Europe, high poverty rates at home and lack of effective government policies have left thousands of Romanian women vulnerable to human trafficking networks.

Many Serbs living in Kosovo may not benefit from the visa liberalisation with the EU that Kosovo is hoping to secure soon, rights activists are warning.

Moldova has confirmed talks about copying the US and shifting its embassy to Jerusalem – reportely in exchange for Israel lopening an embassy in Moldova.

As Macedonia moves closer towards NATO and the EU, relations with Moscow have taken a nosedive – with more trouble expected ahead.

Dragan Vucicevic, editor of the pro-government tabloid Informer, has been found guilty of publishing hate speech in a lawsuit filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR, an NGO.

Bosnian mayors plan a protest in Sarajevo on Thursday against plans to set up migrant and refugee facilities in their municipalities.