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Only a dozen workers remain in the Dolac match factory, Bosnia’s last, which has been churning out matches using a secret recipe since the days of the Emperor Franz Joseph.

In a political breakthough, Prime Minister Edi Rama and opposition leader Lulzim Basha have agreed to delay the elections for a week, and on representation of opposition ministers in the cabinet and key institutions. 

Macedonia's Prime Minister-designate, Zoran Zaev, is counting on several well-known names from his party as new ministers, although he may invite some civic activists into his cabinet as well, BIRN has been told.

Falling governments and pivotal elections seem to be the themes of the week, spiced up with the seemingly never-ending coup saga in Montenegro, which, for some, appears to have a comic edge!

Some 3,000 men and boys were raped during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, but their stories remain untold in Bosnia's macho culture, the Williams Institute reports.

New report by leading NGO says if Serbia maintains its current slow pace in prosecuting war crimes, less than 10 per cent of alleged culprits will face due process in the next 10 years.

Romanian media outlets are on the lookout for one of President Trump's sons, who is reportedly hunting 40 kilometers away from the capital, Bucharest.

The ethnic Albanian Besa party has said a decision on joining a new Social-Democrat-led government will follow only once it is sure the new cabinet does not include ministers suspected of corruption.

Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik has suffered a major blow from the collapse of the planned sale of the Ljubija mine to Israeli bidders.

Croatia's Prime Minister and Foreign Ministry are demanding an explanation from Slovenia about why a concert by the Croat nationalist singer Marko Perkovic ‘Thompson’ has been banned.

Acting under diplomatic pressure, both Prime Minister Edi Rama and opposition leader Lulzim Basha have reached a deal on holding elections in which all parties will now take part. 

As the leaders of both Kosovo and Serbia game the West - by feigning a commitment to the EU Dialogue that neither intends to honour – it is time the West came up with a master plan.

Discover stunning churches, spas, vineyards and craft breweries within two hours of Belgrade.

People in four villages have asked a court in Tirana to nullify decisions allowing the construction of power plants that they say will wreck the environment of the Valbona River, BIRN has learned.

The body of a 20-year-old Romanian dissident who died in 1985 has been exhumed to find out whether his leukemia was caused by radioactive poisoning. 

The capital’s plan to honour Duke Mirko Petrovic, father of the last Montenegrin king Nikola, is provoking Serbs in the country and adding new fuel to old fires.

The trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, also known as Frenki, before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, is due to begin on June 13, the Trial Chamber has announced.

A new deputy minister has resigned after a photo of him giving a Nazi Salute appalled Jews and embarrassed the Bulgarian government.

The Bosnian state court sentenced Branka Sekaric to a probation sentence of eight months for revealing the identity of a protected witness who testified at the war crimes trial of her husband Dragan Sekaric.

Macedonia’s PM-designate says he feels ‘uncomfortable’ with the way Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic has talked about his country - but is ready to improve relations.