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Following restructuring in Galenika, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD, says its ready to consider supporting new investors to revive the pharmaceutical company.

Serbia on Sunday abruptly revoked all of its staff from its embassy in Macedonia, allegedly for emergency consultations to Belgrade.

One of the worst-ever heat waves to hit the Balkans this summer, ‘Lucifer’ has brought drought and forest fires, decimating crops across the region, experts say.

After being allowed to decay for decades, a yacht that was one of the symbols of Yugoslav socialist leader Josip Broz Tito will be refurbished and opened as a museum in the Croatian city of Rijeka.

Following the historic signing of a friendship treaty, Bulgaria has decided to reopen its commercial and economic service in the Macedonian capital, aiming to boost business ties between the two countries.

The high court in Podgorica has seized the assets of the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, and those of his family, until an investigation into how he obtained them has ended.

Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Vuk Ratkovic was accused of torturing, abusing, raping and beating a victim on several occasions in the Visegrad area from 1992 to 1993.

Although the local election campaign has yet to start, the opposition Vetevendosje party has already named most of its candidates for mayoral seats.

The Hague Tribunal has terminated proceedings against Jovo Ostojic, a member of Vojislav Seselj’s nationalist Serbian Radical Party who was wanted for alleged witness intimidation, after he died in June.

Balkan leaders joined those of other countries in condemning the terrorist attacks in Spain on Thursday that left at least 14 people dead and expressing their condolences to the victims.

The number of people arriving illegally in Bosnia has grown this year as desperate migrants seek new ways to reach EU states after other countries on the ‘Balkan Route’ closed their borders.

Animal rights group PETA has called on Bulgaria to stop the use of horse-drawn carriages at tourist sites, warning that the horses are suffering during the ongoing heat wave.

In a new film, convicted war criminal Esad Landzo seeks out former prisoners who he abused when he was an 18-year-old during the Bosnian war in 1992, and asks them to forgive him.

Just over two months since the new Social Democrats-led government took office, the opposition has launched no-confidence motions against three of its ministers, with more likely to come.

Serbia's asylum office has accepted just two applications this year, with hundreds more pending due to understaffing, although some NGOs also blame a lack of political will to approve asylum claims.

A prosecutor told BIRN that 11 Russian and Serbian citizens arrested on Tuesday for illegally crossing the Kosovo border are likely to be deported soon.

After a petition against a proposed law to introduce property taxes attracted over 130,000 signatures, the Croatian government decided to postpone its implementation.

Visiting fans and locals had nothing but praise for the organisers of the UEFA Super Cup final between Real Madrid and Manchester United, which brought a party atmosphere to the capital Skopje.

President Aleksandar Vucic penned an article for a Serbian tabloid praising the opening of the new furniture and home accessories store in Belgrade and claiming it shows his economic policies are succeeding.

Several foreigners living and working in Albania never intended to remain for very long…