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The furious reaction to the German writer Herta Müller’s forthright statements about Serbia’s recent history says less about her than it does about a culture of denial in a large part of Serbian society.

Albania has hailed an election deal, which it helped to mediate, between four ethnic Albanian political parties in Montenegro – designed to strengthen the community's hand in the neighbouring country.

Bulgarian governing coalition party GERB has set up a page on Facebook to highlight what it describes as ‘fake news’ - statements by members of the opposition which it claims are lies.

After Serbia’s foreign minister said that the South American state of Suriname has revoked its recognition of Kosovo, the Pristina government claimed that this is not possible under international law.

Kosovo-born Mirsad Kandic, one of the most wanted alleged associates of Islamic State, was extradited from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States to face terror charges.

The 14th-century ‘Sarajevo Haggadah’ Hebrew manuscript and the manuscript collection held by the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library have been included in the UN cultural body’s Memory of the World International Register.

The Constitutional Court backed a proposed constitutional amendment from pro-European MPs saying that the country’s official language should be called Romanian rather than Moldovan.

Zagreb county court jailed three former Serb fighters in their absence for burning down a Croatian village in 1991, handing down prison sentences ranging from five-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half years.

The EU’s statistical agency said that the union’s largest grower of pumpkins and squash is Bulgaria, where Halloween is growing in popularity among younger people despite disapproval from religious traditionalists.

States and ethnic groups in the Balkans are still denying that their troops committed war crimes in an attempt to evade moral responsibility by blaming the other side, thwarting the possibility of reconciliation.

If the traffic jams in Belgrade are not enough to scare you this Halloween, head out to these five haunted places in Serbia instead.

A new statue of the 19th century Bulgarian freedom fighter Vasil Levski has just been unveiled in Canada, as the fashion for putting up statues to him shows no sign of abating.

Croatia faces numerous international arbitration processes over borders, important companies or stopped construction projects – with potentially expensive outcomes.

The unorthodox pranks and statements of Serbia’s Foreign Minister may appal some in Serbia’s media and civil society – but Serbia’s President is determined to turn a blind eye.

London-based BMI Research has upgraded Albania's GDP growth forecast for this year and next, based on a favourable climate for investment and a rise in local consumption. 

Health Minister Nikolay Petrov resigned on Monday, following a TV report which revealed that while head of a hospital, he granted public procurements to a firm owned by his daughter's partner. 

While refusing to recognize the local election results – which saw a debacle for VMRO DPMNE – the opposition party says it will not give up the five seats it won in the polls.

As the Serbian government’s working group tasked to coordinate ‘internal dialogue’ on Kosovo held its first meeting, its head, Marko Djuric, said it aimed to encourage a wider public debate on this still very sensitive issue.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Sasa Savinovic was convicted of involvement in murders and forcible resettlement in Mostar in 1993 and jailed for eight years for crimes against humanity.

The European Union condemned Serbia’s decision to name a convicted war criminal, general Vladimir Lazarevic, as a lecturer at the national military academy.