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A former Yugoslav State Security Service official alleged in court that the former leader of the governing Croatian Democratic Union, Tomislav Karamarko, was an informer in the 1980s.

Macedonian farmers have warned that they will 'paralyze' the country if the government does not deliver long overdue payments of subsidies that are now several months behind.

David Icke, the former BBC broadcaster best known for his belief that reptiles from outer space control the world, is visiting Serbia, a country much given to conspiracy theories.

The possible sale of Bosnia's key iron-ore mine to an Israeli investor has sparked political infighting in Republika Srpska and a diplomatic row involving Bosnian Serb politicians and Israel.

A court must decide whether the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, can stay Belgrade while receiving medical treatment, or return home to serve his jail term.

Several thousand protesters in the Serbian capital marked the first anniversary of the controversial demolitions in Belgrade with a protest entitled 'On the Trail of Phantoms'.

Politicians from Kosovo’s ruling coalition predicted that the ruling alliance of parties could split soon and that there could be snap elections in the country.

Bosniak and Croat ex-soldiers staged joint protests to demand improved payments from the government and proof that all those receiving veterans’ benefits are genuine claimants.

Contrary to the Serbian government’s stance, former chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said it was a fact that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica.

To avoid directly targeting the influential Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, Podgorica’s mayor filed a criminal complaint against unknown perpetrators, who were “dressed like priests”, for holding a mass on disputed property.

Austrian oil group OMV, which controls Romania’s former state-owned Petrom, has filed an arbitration suit accusing Bucharest of not reimbursing environmental clean-up costs and violating its privatisation contract.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has failed to comply with an international declaration on the restitution of property seized during WWII, while other Balkan countries have not honoured their commitments in full.

Serbs who were imprisoned as children in the Croatian World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac tell their traumatic and emotional stories in a new documentary.

Former Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic is heading to Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday to present what he calls the case for the 'alternative Serbia' not controlled by Aleksandar Vucic.

The European Court of Human Rights is set to issue a ruling giving Romania time to come up with a policy to improve detention conditions, after the number of complaints spiked in 2016.

As the anniversary of the mysterious nighttime demolitions in Belgrade approaches, a witness, Milos Djordjevic, recalls how masked men in Savamala grabbed him and told him ‘to put his head down’. 

Vetevendosje is resisting pressure from its political allies to endorse AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj as the joint opposition candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the elections. 

A source close to Macedonia's Special Prosecution, tasked with probing high-level crime, said its investigations will not stop even if its 18-month deadline to raise charges runs out and is not renewed.

Three former Croatian military policemen were jailed for crimes against Serb prisoners of war who were beaten and tortured at the Lora prison camp in the coastal city of Split in 1992.

Thousands of opposition supporters blocked five national crossroads on Monday from 11am till noon, demanding a technical government be instated to conduct free and fair elections on June 18.