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Carrying a 20-kilogram wooden cross, Sasa Pavlic has started a 180-kilometre walk from Rijeka to Zagreb, protesting over the government's purchase of military jets, while there are no funds for sick children.

NGOs and citizens groups are calling for mass protests against the spate of car bombs and gangs killings in the capital, Podgorica.

Sarajevans will plant 1,601 roses in memory of the children killed during the Bosnian capital’s 1992-96 siege.

Amidst ongoing controversy over the charges, the Chisinau District Court reached its decision after six hours of deliberation.  

Prime Minister Edi Rama faces calls for resignation while opposition urges civil disobedience after a protest against the imposition of a toll on the highway to Kosovo ended in violence and arrests.

Bosnia's farmers risk losing access to 30 million euros in EU pre-accession funds if its Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, withdraws its consent to a rural development strategy.

Belgrade and Moscow need each other more than ever right now – Russia because it is isolated, Serbia because of Kosovo.

A spike in measles in the country, an infectious disease that has returned for the first time in a decade, is being blamed on a decline in children’s vaccinations.

Romania’s Attorney General sought permission on Monday to prosecute former president Ion Iliescu and former prime minister Petre Roman for crimes against humanity during the anti-communist uprising in December 1989. 

Romania’s arms exports increased by 20 per cent in 2017, according to official statistics, but the country still lags behind some of its neighbours.

Former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops called on MPs to respond to their demands for benefits for unemployed veterans and a proper unified register of those who fought in the 1992-95 war.

Stjepen Mesic has said he does not wish to accept an award making him an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo – after the city controversially reneged on a move to give the award to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.

Up to 10,000 people rallied on Tuesday evening in the Macedonian capital Skopje against a possible compromise with Greece over the country’s name, arguing that changing it is not in the national interest.

Appeals in the case against Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity under a first-instance verdict, will be heard in late April.

For the first time, the EU will receive not one but two responses to a questionnaire it sent to a potential member country, highlighting the game of illusions Bosnia is playing with Brussels.

A bitterly-contested border demarcation agreement with Montenegro, which sparked months of protest in Kosovo, is now being adopted thanks to an unlikely compromise intended to help its opponents save face.

In a sign of changing political times, the Union of Democratic Forces, which was a pivotal anti-Communist force in the 1990s, has had to give up its headquarters to a rising nationalist party.

Smaller Albanian parties in Macedonia say they are willing to bolster Zoran Zaev’s government with their support but petty quarrels between them could undermine the move.

Albanian police have recorded the disappearance of more than a dozen fishermen from the coastal town of Vlora as ‘fishermen lost at sea’ – however, BIRN can reveal that most of them died trying to ship cannabis to Italy.

Human rights activists staged a commemoration at Belgrade’s railway station on the 25th anniversary of the abductions of 20 train passengers by Bosnian Serb fighters in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993.