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Romania has recalled its ambassador to Washington after he took former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to task for his letter criticising the country’s anti-corruption drive as excessive.  

Displaced Serbs from Djakovica/Gjakova in Kosovo have cancelled a planned trip to visit an Orthodox church in their former hometown, citing a lack of guarantees to ensure their safety.

In its closing statement, the prosecution urged the Bosnian state court to convict former soldier Vuk Ratkovic of torturing, abusing and raping a Serb woman in Visegrad during wartime.

An article published by Croatia’s best-read newspaper downplaying the atrocities at the Jasenovac concentration camp was an attempt to rehabilitate Croatia’s WWII fascist Ustasa regime and deny its complicity in the Holocaust.

Macedonia’s main opposition party remains undecided about whether to participate in the historic referendum on September 30 – and tap into the funds allocated for campaigns.

Media unions, TV stations and political leaders have condemned the attack on Vladimir Kovacevic – a Bosnian Serb journalist who was assaulted by unknown perpetrators on Sunday in Banja Luka after covering the latest protest rally over the death of David Dragicevic.

Serbian and Bosnian Serb leaders will not be appeased by the partition of Kosovo – merely emboldened to try and unravel Bosnia as well.

Divers have accidentally discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman ship containing hundreds of amphoras near the island of Pag in the Adriatic.

Bulgaria's higher educational institutions have announced hundreds of vacant places on courses in the 2018-2019 academic year – as European universities continue to lure away the country's best students.

The recently arrested pro-Russian Serbian nationalist – who styles himself leader of the Chetnik movement – has documented his long involvement in the Ukraine conflict in style on Facebook.

A lack of regulation means the public has no insight into the deals made between state institutions and private companies during the drafting of legislation.

More than 25,000 people took to the streets of Moldova’s capital on Sunday for an opposition protest against corruption, lack of reforms and downgraded democratic standards.

Serbia's and Kosovo's presidents have called on the international community to support the deal reached by the two countries, including possible border corrections.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has awarded a controversial Russian writer who has been banned by the Bosnian authorities from entering the country for security reasons.

President Donald Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton, said in Kiev that the US will not exclude or oppose territorial swaps between Serbia and Kosovo if the two sides can agree on them.

Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic said that a big monument to Croatia's first President, Franjo Tudjman, will be finished by the 19th anniversary of his death in December.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Radomir Susnjar, charged with participating in the murder of 57 people in the Visegrad area in 1992, pleaded not guilty on Friday before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Investigative reporters have become regular targets in Europe, as populism rises and politicians create an environment that makes violence easier, BIRN’s Summer School heard in Brasov, Romania.

The inviolability of frontiers has been a cornerstone of postwar Europe’s architecture – but some believe the EU and the US are preparing to throw away the rulebook on Kosovo.

Albania's Foreign Minister told Albanians from southern Serbia that Tirana will continue to demand that Belgrade fully respects the human rights of its Albanian minority.