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Many Kosovo Albanians living abroad complain that glitches in the Central Election Commission's IT department deprived them of the chance to take part in the June elections.

Croatia is pushing ahead with demands for compensation for its lost prewar investment in the Gacko power plant in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ratko Mladic’s lawyer said they may urge people in Serbia to take to the streets and protest in support of their demand for the temporary release of the Bosnian Serb leader.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has acquitted Milan Mandic and local TV station employees of charges of inciting hatred and intolerance in 2014, by allegedly calling the Srebrenica massacre 'God's justice'.

Retired General Bratislav Dikic and five others facing a trial over an alleged coup attempt last October in Montenegro have again pleaded not guilty, saying all the evidence was planted.

Romanian former development minister Elena Udrea and former president Traian Basescu’s daughter, Ioana, will stand trial for obtaining illegal funds for Basescu's 2009 presidential campaign. 

Accusations made by a Romanian TV show anchor - that his broadcaster has turned a blind eye to a corruption scandal linked to the station - have fuelled fresh controversy over press freedom and self-censorship. 

There are concerns in Croatia that Monday’s terror attack in the UK will result in tighter checks - and long queues - on the Slovenia-Croatia border, undermining the tourism industry.

Major political parties in Kosovo are ignoring calls from the international community to exclude those with criminal charges from candidate lists for impending snap elections.

The EU and US must follow up their recent successes in knocking heads together in Macedonia and Albania – or the region’s descent into a dangerous crisis will continue.

The competition to become Kosovo’s next PM will focus on three candidates with very different ideological profiles - Ramush Haradinaj, from 'the war wing', Avdullah Hoti, from the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK and Albin Kurti, from Vetevendosje.

Police on Thursday said they arrested two Serbs for writing 'Kosovo is the heart of Serbia' on the wall of a school in April - though the suspects were later released.

Witnesses in the Lora case told the court they did not recall Croatian military police committing war crimes against Serb civilians and POWs in the Lora prison camp in Split in 1992.

The nine-year-long trial of a flamboyant former mayor and 36 businessmen and public employees charged with corruption, abuse of public service, forgery and complicity in illegal sales of beaches has reached a close. 

The director of Serbia's Centre for the Promotion of Science risks dismissal because of his defence of the theory of evolution - which has come under fire from conservatives in Serbia.

Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov has refused to bow to multiple calls for his resignation over Nazi rows involving both him and other members of his nationalist United Patriots. 

Ivan Vrdoljak, head of the opposition Croatian People’s Party, told BIRN that his party has no intention of joining a coalition government under the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

Courts in Serbia are still sitting on a number of extradition demands, some dating back years, potentially causing concern to the EU.

An assault on democratic norms in the Balkans should be treated with the same urgency as such a crisis would precipitate within the core of the EU.

Critics of Saturday's anti-abortion ‘Walk for Life’ in Zagreb say it is wrong for such an event to be staged on the day when Croatia is supposed to descend into a pre-election 'silence', free of political activity.