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Croatia has the third fastest-growing tourism industry in the EU, but its economy is at risk of relying too much one one unstable sector, an analyst says.

Government officials, Jewish associations and civic activists say it is time to put an end to the infamous annual parade of ultra-nationalists that they say brings shame to Bulgaria.

The head of the EU office in Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, said that by stalling over the new special war crimes court and the border deal with Montenegro, Kosovo MPs are holding their own nation hostage.

Serbian military officers who have denied accusations of war crimes in Kosovo will serve as consultants on a documentary about two battles from the 1999 conflict, made by Serbia’s public broadcaster.

From Skopje to Glasgow, activists are joining protests against construction in Bulgaria’s Pirin National Park, spurred on by anger about corruption. 

After Moscow accused Moldova of discrimination against Russian media, Moldovan MPs have hit back with a statement accusing the Kremlin of interfering in their country's affairs.  

The latest Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe resolution on Bosnia welcomes some progress – but calls attention to familiar problems over the country's election law, the city of Mostar and war crimes. 

As Hungary heads towards parliamentarian elections, the main ethnic Hungarian party in Serbia is doing its best to ensure that Viktor Orban cruises towards another victory.

Despite the announced visit of the Montenegrin Prime Minister to Pristina, it is not clear if Kosovo's parliament will ratify the controversial border demarcation deal between the two countries.

A year after the Romania’s biggest anti-corruption protests started, activists have found new, more creative, ways to make themselves heard.

Reporters on corruption and organised crime in the Balkans are subject to a range of different pressures and challenges – as our comparison of reporting on such cases in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia shows.

The Macedonian and Greek Prime Ministers have agreed to intensify UN-sponsored talks on their long-standing ‘name’ dispute, announcing a set of concessions aimed at showing their good faith during their first meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Youth Initiative for Human Rights activists filed a lawsuit against the Serbian Progressive Party after they were attacked while protesting against a speech by convicted war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party has opened an office at the site of a World War II concentration camp in Belgrade, drawing criticism from rights campaigners.

The European Commission on Wednesday told Romania to reconsider legislative changes that appear to put the rule of law at risk, as the country is still on probation in terms of curbing corruption.

Russia has shrugged aside Moldova's demand that the Kremlin compensate it for its 'illegal occupation' of the breakaway Transnistria region.

Bosnian minister dismisses Serbian president's claim that Bosnia asked Belgrade to arrest Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia's mainly Serb entity, Republika Srpska.

Moldova is facing worrying demographic trends, as large-scale migration and changes in people’s mentality cause sharp falls in the numbers of new-borns.

Alumni clubs are a new phenomenon in Albania – but one gathering successful former pupils of the Gjergj Kastrioti school in Durres is up and running, and gathering funds for their run-down alma mater.

Outbursts of violence, illiberal leaders and failures to reform mean Brussels must wake up to the fact that the Balkans are not headed towards EU membership but towards instability .