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Serbs who visit a church in the western Kosovo town of Gjakova/Djakovica for Orthodox Christmas each year have cancelled their trip after local Kosovo Albanians said they would stage a protest.

Two MPs have lost their right to sit in Albania's parliament after prosecutors said they had failed to declare criminal offences they committed in Italy several years ago.

Albanian police say they are investigating several dozen protesters who removed a Turkish flag from a Turkish-owned power plant in the north of the country.

With Christmas Part II looming for Serbian Orthodox believers, who celebrate Christ's birth on January 7, some unemployed Bosnians have a chance to earn some cash from sales of traditional festive symbols.

Moldova's Constitutional Courts of Moldova has approved the third temporary suspension from office in three months of the country's pro-Russian president, Igor Dodon.

A court in Thessaloniki on Friday granted a Macedonian request for the extradition of two former secret police employees sought in relation to Macedonia's illegal wiretapping affair.

The US, Britain, France, Germany and Italy condemned ongoing attempts by MPs in Pristina to revoke the law that allows the new Hague-based Specialist Chambers to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

The pro-government newspaper Informer has reported that the ruling Serbian Progressive Party will hold a meeting next week to discuss early parliamentary elections in the spring.

Even the celebrations of Christmas and New Year are a matter of siding with the ‘East’ or the ‘West’ in this former Soviet republic.

The radical and revisionist messages of far-right Croatian politicians and historians find a sympathetic audience among many members of Croatia’s huge émigré community.

A black comedy debut, Gjorce Stavreski’s 'Secret Ingredient', is on the way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed films from Macedonia in years.

After more than three months of tension and different expectations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new national football coach has been selected.

Thousands of people are protesting across Bulgaria against recent government decision to allow ski resort expansion at the UNESCO-designated Pirin National Park.

Croatian police say they will protect Croatian fishing boats, if the Slovenian police try issuing them with penalties for crossing the disputed maritime border in the Piran Gulf.

National bank data show Moldova's principal foreign investors are now from EU countries – while Russia has dropped from first place to sixth in the investment league table.

Moves to ratify the so-called Istanbul Convention of the Council of Europe are encountering strong opposition both from parties in the Bulgarian government and the opposition.

Social media in Kosovo are buzzing with outrage after it was reported that Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj took a winter break in star-studded St Moritz, days after he doubled his salary.

In his first year of office, Igor Dodon has been anything but a ‘President of all Moldovans’ – fighting with the government, agitating for Moscow and, some say, using Transnistria to build his own power base.

While prospects for economic growth, propelled by the boom in tourism, look bright, a continuing crisis over the huge Agrokor company could yet bring down the fragile coalition government.

As he enters the last year of his term, Serbia’s combative information commissioner, Rodoljub Sabic, says he wishes to leave a proper legal structure in place behind him when he goes.