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After years of silence, hundreds of Croatian women have been speaking publicly about the traumatic experiences they suffered during childbirth in the country’s hospitals, putting obstetric violence on the political agenda.

A slew of resignations by prominent party officials who disagree with their leadership’s anti-Western path have rocked Macedonia’s opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE.

Activists warned that Serbia is adopting its first legislation to protect critical infrastructure such as power, water, telecommunications and healthcare facilities without any public discussion or proper explanation.

Ineligible candidates for Bulgarian citizenship paid thousands of euros to illegally acquire ‘heritage certificates’ in a corrupt scam run by a state agency, prosecutors said.

Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of British heavy metal heroes Iron Maiden, will be bestowed the title of honorary citizen of Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo. 

Patriarch Kirill gave Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon an honour for his support for his country's Orthodox Church, which remains loyal to Moscow.

As the prosecutor at the Hague-based Specialist Chambers visited Kosovo for the first time, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said there is a sense of scepticism about the new court that will try suspects for wartime crimes.

Over 2,000 people marched through the Romanian capital on Tuesday night to commemorate the third anniversary of a fire that killed 64 and wounded 147 at a rock concert in Bucharest in 2015.

When activists protested against an event organised by the ruling party promoting a convicted war criminal, we were fined - showing again how Serbian officials still reject the truth about the 1990s conflicts.

Famed and feared for elaborate Vlach death rituals, Serbia’s east is also home to Roman palaces, historical vineyards, medieval monasteries and more.

Belgrade and Moscow authorities have not revealed specific details of an amended agreement which will enable Serbia to re-export some of the Russian gas being pumped into the country.

Some Croatian parents are worried about the creeping influence of the Catholic Church in schools.

As Skopje pushes forward to change its constitution to implement the 'name' deal with Greece, the ratification of agreement by Athens might be threatened by domestic politics, a Greek diplomat told BIRN.

More than 86,000 Bosnians have renounced their citizenship in order to acquire foreign passports since 1996 - the population of an entire town, according to official data.

Zeljko Komsic, the new Croat member of the Bosnian tripartite presidency, said that Croatian European Parliament members who complained about his election win were interfering in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internal affairs.

An appeals court upheld the fines imposed on eight human rights activists who disrupted a speech by convicted Serbian war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin in 2017.

The killing of a Greek-Albanian gunman by Albanian police has caused new tensions between the two countries and sparked allegations that the officers overreacted.

Former Economy Minister Martina Dalic, who resigned over a scandal connected to the imposition of state management on ailing food giant Agrokor, published a book telling her side of the story, insisting there was no corruption involved.

Serbia and Kosovo signed a protocol agreeing to repatriate the remains of people whose bodies have been found after they went missing because of the 1998-99 war.

After the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople agreed to recognise the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s independence from Moscow, Russia is seeking to strengthen ties with canonically subordinate allies.