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In the light of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, women from Romania and Albania especially have joined the #metoo social media campaign and are speaking out about sexual harassment in their countries. 

As local elections in Kosovo draw nearer, the tensions in the Serb-dominated north are very different from the ones that haunted this region in the past.

The first year of Croatia’s HDZ-led government saw old alliances severed and new friendship forged, amid a setting of troubled companies, irate neighbours and a fascist legacy.

The European Commission is considering cutting roaming charges for the Western Balkans, following calls from EU candidate countries to abolish the fees. 

Locals and farmers in northeast Bulgaria are protesting against plans to extract gas in the General Toshevo municipality, fearing it could wreck the environment and livelihoods based on farming.

October’s local elections in Kosovo will likely be free and fair – the real test of this young country’s democratic health is what happens after the election.

New research conducted in Tirana and Belgrade shows that while newspapers in both countries have a neutral tone when writing about each other, the tone becomes bitter when the subject turns to Kosovo.

Following a BIRN investigation into the financing of election war chests by Serbia’s ruling party, President Vucic says his party’s finances are “clean as a whistle”.

The trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic was told that fighters allegedly controlled by the defendants detained and killed non-Serbs at a base in Croatia run by paramilitary boss Arkan.

The first-instance verdict in the trial of the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic, who is accused of genocide and large-scale persecution during the Bosnian war, will be delivered next month.

The 'Free Citizens' movement led by Sasa Jankovic announced a protest in Belgrade on Friday, demanding 'free and fair' elections ahead of local polls in Belgrade due next year.

As Spain’s dispute with Catalonia escalates, we offer the perspective from the Balkans, along with analysis of the latest political and economic developments from our region. 

The trial of Naser Oric, the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica who is accused of killing Serb prisoners of war, centred on a key witness’s testimony - but was it true or false?

Prime Minister Edi Rama is getting closer to realising his dream of dotting the skyline of Tirana with a forest of skyscrapers - whose economic need is questionable, critics say.

With less than a month to go before local elections take place in Kosovo, citizens in the capital, Pristina, say they want to see city services run better.

Macedonia's infant mortality rate is almost three times the European average – and the new government is under pressure to find out what is going wrong.

The first volume of the Bosnian Serb encyclopedia is finally out – but at this rate, most people will be long dead before they finish volume five.

The proposed purchase of new fighter jets for Bulgaria’s armed forces has sparked fierce debate among MPs, with members of the ruling party accusing President Rumen Radev of corruption.

On the anniversary of two soldiers’ killings at a Belgrade barracks where war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was allegedly hiding, their families asked officials to tell them if the investigation has made progress.

A revised financial report for Croatian giant Agrokor’s major subsidiaries showed that the former management’s financial accounts understated their losses by 250 million euros in 2015.