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European Parliament vice-president Ulrike Lunacek said Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci was wrong to blame the EU for Kosovo’s failure to secure a visa-free regime because Pristina still has more work to do.

The EU should have the courage to tell Macedonia to delay an election for which the country is wholly unprepared.

The removal of judge Vladimir Vucinic from Belgrade’s Special Court was a political move aimed at curbing judicial independence and will set back an important case against interior ministry officers, experts alleged.

Due to recent deaths of patients attributed to poor healthcare standards, Macedonia’s health minister Nikola Todorov faces a no-confidence vote in parliament instigated by the opposition.

Most Romanians have lost interest in marking the December anniversary of the overthrow of the Communist regime, with only small-scale commemorations organised this year.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

You can buy a business off Europe’s youngest state – but that doesn’t always mean you can have it.

Journalists are staging a protest because Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic has still not been sacked despite PM Aleksandar Vucic announcing he would be removed for making a sexist comment about a reporter.

Croatia’s political limbo should end on Monday when the prime minister-designate will be announced, say key negotiating parties.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the US have bought millions of dollars of Bulgarian weaponry, much of it likely destined for the war in Syria, a BIRN investigation reveals.

Twenty years after the war ended, more than 7,000 people displaced by the conflict still live in temporary accommodation in ‘collective centres’ throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The far right’s success in Western countries pose hard questions about whether extreme nationalism can still be termed a ‘Balkan’ problem.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

With a plot seemingly borrowed from science fiction, two professors are recreating top-quality, high-producing US breeds in Kosovo cows.

In a break with the old practice of currying favour with the powerful Orthodox Church, the government has decided not to finance the construction of any new churches next year.

Serbia opens the first two chapters in its EU membership negotiations on December 14 - which leaders have said will be an historic day for the country.

Several hundred people marched the streets of Podgorica in the third Montenegro pride parade, urging the government to allow same-sex marriages.

The third annual Podgorica Pride LGBT parade takes place in the Montenegrin capital on Sunday, taking a different route from the one used previously.

Foes of NATO and fans of Russia rallied in Podgorica on Saturday, demanding a referendum Montenegro's upcoming membership of the alliance.