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Croatian finance expert Fabris Perusko was appointed as the state’s new ‘extraordinary manager’ for debt-ridden food giant Agrokor after the previous crisis chief quit over alleged conflict of interest.

A new report argues that using the word ‘reconciliation’ does not help families of Kosovo Albanian and Serb war victims to deal with the past because it suggests that crimes should be pardoned or forgotten.

Ahead of this weekend’s Belgrade city elections, the ruling Serbian Progressive Party said it will send its activists to help people clear up snow outside their homes amid the current freezing weather.

Romania’s Anti-Discrimination Council cleared PM Viorica Dancila of offensive language charges, angering rights organisations who had complained that she used the word “autistic” as an insult.

Posters of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic have been put up at a municipality building in East Sarajevo, in what the mayor said was a gesture of support for the war crimes defendant.

Murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic named Milan Radoicic – a debt collector and truck owner close to Serbia’s ruling party - as a key figure in the intimidating system of power in northern Kosovo.

In the second part of our debate on the Atlantic Council report, one of the authors responds to Edward Joseph’s criticisms – and says they mistake the report’s overall purpose.

The latest assaults on Bosnia’s Central Election Commission will not only undermine this key institution but could also jeopardise the upcoming general elections.

Right-wing and diaspora organizations plan a rally in Skopje on Tuesday against a possible compromise with Greece on the country's name – which they say would damage the national interest.

The Appeals Court in Pristina has released three opposition Vetevendosje activists who were jailed last November for throwing an explosive device at the parliament in 2016 – and ordered a retrial.

A witness told a Belgrade court how Serbian forces rounded up all the ethnic Albanian men in the Kosovo village of Cuska in May 1999, then looted and torched their houses.

It has been an exhausting month for Serbia's indefatigable Aleksandar Vucic, with a pointless trip to Zagreb, a national holiday to oversee – and a Kosovo anniversary to try to spoil.

The UN war crimes court will deliver its appeal verdict on Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj on April 11, but he has vowed not to return to The Hague to hear it.

The cold wave hit the Balkans on Monday, with more freezing temperatures, reaching minus-20 degrees, expected in the coming days.

Campaigners expressed frustration after Croatia said that three wartime missing persons about whom Serbia’s president recently handed over information had actually been found beforehand.

A watchdog NGO called on voters to report any irregularities ahead of the Belgrade municipal polls next month, saying it had already received over 300 complaints about media coverage.

As the first part of a debate on a major Atlantic Council report, Edward P. Joseph says ‘Balkans Forward’ proposes some worryingly retrograde steps.

Starting from the next school year, elementary school pupils in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska will use the same textbooks and curriculum for four subjects as children in Serbia.

As EU-led Kosovo-Serbia talks are set to renew, Serbia's delegation is expected to ask questions in Brussels about the investigation into the murder of the Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.

The main Bosnian Serb opposition party, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS,  nominated party leader Vukota Govedarica as its candidate for president of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serbian-dominated entity in elections this autumn.