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Visitors can now enjoy inside tours of Romania's Palace of the Parliament, the second largest building in the world, without having to leave home

As the European Parliament approved a resolution on Kosovo’s progress toward EU integration, the Parliament's Vice-President, Ulrike Lunacek, urged all member states to recognize it.

At the London donor conference, Serbia's Prime Minister has called for unified international solution to the refugee crisis - which is affecting the Balkan region's stability.

As a strike against pension reforms and tax increases paralyzed much of Greece on Thursday, supposed anarchists threw Molotov cocktails and battled police in the centre of Athens.

Corruption is still thwarting the functioning of the justice system in Serbia, a report on battling corruption by BIRN and the Belgrade Center for Security Policy reads. 

The President's adviser on pardons has been forced out after it emerged that he sought a reduced jail term for a personal acquaintance.

High-level conference held in Kosovo demands closer cooperation on common security issues - and urges the West to support Balkan countries when addressing common challenges.

Two decades after the war, Bosnian politicians still cannot agree on lyrics for the national anthem.

Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Brano Gojkovic was jailed for ten years after making a plea bargain with the Serbian prosecution, admitting he took part in executing 800 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Fikret Planincic’s 11-year prison sentence for taking part in the 1992 killings of nine Serb civilians, including two children, has been upheld on appeal.

Bosnia's state parliament has told the Constitutional Commission - which has rejected a Bosnian Serb proposal to reform the Constitutional Court - to re-examine the proposal.

Negotiations on key chapters on Serbia’s European path could be opened as early as June, an expert said, after Enlargement Commissioner Hahn praised the progress made so far.

Mounting political pressures and blatant disregard for judgments are undermining the authority of constitutional courts across the region.

Five persons, initially accused of planning to poison a reservoir, have rejected prosecution charges that they planned to shoot an ISIS propaganda video.

Macedonia's Special Prosecution, tasked with probing illegality in high places, has denied wrongdoing after a barrage of criminal charges allege it has pressured potential witnesses.

For many Montenegrins, the abandoned – and lethal – ruins of the House of Revolution in Niksic symbolise the failure of the Yugoslav communist experiment

Croatia's new ministers and MPs have started filling in their asset declarations, as the law dictates, although some appear to have surprisingly modest portfolios of possessions.

Cameras are being installed in police uniforms in Albania in order to make the police behave better and deter them from taking bribes. 

Parliament voted on Wednesday to lift the immunity of former deputy prime minister Gabriel Oprea, accused by prosecutors of abuse of power.

Testifying in defence of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, a former police chief said he did not know in 1992 that a special police squad under his command killed Bosniaks and Croats.