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Bosnians gathered in the villages of Ahmici and Trusina to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the war crimes committed there against Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini are to visit Macedonia this week after the country adopted reforms which it hopes will increase chances of a recommendation for accession talks.

Widening gender wage gap, a segregated job market and discrimination are hindering women’s progress in the labour market in Moldova, experts say.

The veteran leader Milo Djukanovic has declared victory in the Montenegrin presidential polls amid reports of voting irregularities.

After being prime minister six times and president once, Montenegro’s veteran leader Milo Djukanovic is battling six other candidates for a new term as head of state in Sunday’s presidential polls.

Some Balkan leaders voiced support for the US-led strikes on Syria's suspected chemical weapons capabilities, but in Serbia the air attacks brought back bad memories of the 1999 NATO bombing.

The Croatian parliament strengthened Andrej Plenkovic’s position by rejecting a no-confidence bid to unseat the deputy premier and ratifying a European convention on violence against women despite conservative protests.

A Belgrade court has fined the pro-government tabloid newspaper Informer for publishing untruths about BIRN in Serbia and its editor, Slobodan Georgiev.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj said that he will not resign as an MP despite his war crimes conviction, which legally disqualifies him from sitting in parliament.

With their common interest in joining the EU, Kiev and Chisinau showed their determination to increase economic cooperation by signing new agreements on liberalising transport and customs regulations.

A former prison camp inmate told a Croatian court that he believed Bosnian Croat officials Marinko Maric and Zeljko Rodin, accused of war crimes against Bosniak prisoners in 1993, violently interrogated detainees.

Protesters in Split rallied against the so-called Istanbul Convention – intended to prevent violence against women – expressing anger at Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, the EU and the Croatian political establishment.

Supporters of Zhelyaz Andreev, a Bulgarian accused by the US of taking part in a conspiracy to sell prohibited aircraft parts to the Syrian regime, have rallied to protest his innocence and oppose his extradition.

When the EU’s rule-of-law mission EULEX ends its mandate in mid-June, Kosovo judges and prosecutors will have to deal with hundreds of war crimes and corruption cases without international supervision for the first time.

The break-up of Kosovo's ruling coalition has created a political deadlock that has left the opposition calling for another snap election, which means that yet another government may fall before its mandate ends.

Thousands protested in the city of Split against Croatia’s impending ratification of the Council of Europe’s ‘Istanbul Convention’ on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, claiming it would undermine family values and the country’s traditions.

The European Court of Human Rights will examine Bulgarian former king and prime minister Simeon Sakskoburggotski’s request for the restitution of two properties that once belonged to the crown.

A claim in tycoon Miroslav Miskovic’s forthcoming book that he was promised by a former Serbian president that he would not be arrested for alleged corruption has triggered a public scandal.

Our selection of Premium articles this week comes with a special focus on Bosnia, all with an eye on upcoming national elections. We also look at other corners of the region, from Macedonia to Moldova. 

Lawyers and NGOs urged the Serbian parliament to call a halt to Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj’s term as an MP because he was convicted of wartime crimes by the UN court in The Hague.