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Thousands of people attended Pride parades in the Romanian capital Bucharest, Croatia’s Zagreb and Bulgaria's Sofia on Saturday in support of LGBT rights.

An Albanian national carrier, a proposed joint venture between Turkish Airlines and a new Albanian investment company, will begin flying this summer, one of its co-owners says.

The UK is deploying around 40 military personnel to Bosnia to ensure ‘free and fair’ elections and counter “malign external influence.”

The presiding judge in the trial of Nikola Gruevski has been assigned 24-hour police protection following threats, the interior minister confirmed.

The Adriatic seaports of Zadar and Rijeka offer a new route for China to bring its goods to Europe.

In his second book, Ivo Sanader advocates an historic pact between conservatives and liberals, and stakes his claim to remain part of the political scene despite his own controversies.

This week’s selection of articles identifies new tides coming into the region, yet with them come some old problems and projects. 

The annual celebration of the best in the European documentary film world is bringing seven thought-provoking films to the Kombank Hall – after the Sava Center declined to play host.

While Bosnia’s high unemployment rate is notorious and affects people from all walks of life, the middle-aged feel especially discriminated against in their job searches.

A proposed referendum in Croatia on reducing the rights of ethnic minority MPs has highlighted the fragile position of the country’s Serbs and could cause a serious international backlash.

Macedonia is soon to change its restrictive abortion law, which sparked widespread criticism from rights activists when it was adopted five years ago, the health minister said.

In Spain, a different party takes power, but policy on Catalonia, and by extension Kosovo, is unlikely to change.

A British parliamentary committee is demanding documents related to the shipment of 30 million Bosnian bullets to Saudi Arabia, which went ahead after London failed to pass on its suspicions about the deal.

Former Bosnian Serb detention camp manager Dragan Nikolic, who admitted participating in the murders, rape and torture of Bosniak prisoners in 1992 and apologised to his victims, has died.

Media associations and NGOs insist that the sacking of the public broadcaster’s director on Thursday was politically motivated to restore government control.

Balkan countries agreed to create a joint database and develop cooperation in a bid to deal with the continuing migrant and refugee crisis and prevent another major influx of people heading for Western Europe.

MPs voted to back the ruling GERB party’s proposal to restart the building of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant as a “market-oriented” state collaboration with a strategic investor.

The European Federation of Journalists adopted a resolution urging a new Hague-based court to investigate killings and disappearences of ethnic Albanian and Serb journalists connected to the Kosovo conflict.

After eight years of talks, the Albanian government approved an agreement with the International Commission on Missing Persons to find and identify some of the 6,000 victims killed by the Communist regime.

The Kosovo Assembly's speaker and a delegation of 30 officials are travelling to Austria to lobby for a long-awaited visa liberalisation areement with the European Union.