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Republika Srpska decision not to consider people who do not work or study in the entity as permanent residents is an attempt to skew Bosnia's demographic picture, an expert says.

The Belgrade High Court on Wednesday interrogated Bulgarian businessman Tsvetan Vasilev, whose extradition is sought by the Bulgarian authorities in relation to his failed bank.

After the Kosovo President set up a team of international experts to assess the hotly disputed of Kosovo-Montenegro border deal, opposition parties said it would make no difference.

Refugees stuck in the Idomeni camp in northern Greece say they will try to cross illegally into Macedonia again - whatever the Greek, Macedonian, or European leaders say.

Former Bosnian Army soldiers Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic were sentenced to seven years in prison each for raping a woman in Bihac in the country’s north-west in May 1994.

The UN court in The Hague said Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj does not have to be present for his war crimes verdict this month, despite its previous demand for him to return.

The Serbian national broadcaster removed a documentary about a war crime committed during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 from its schedule, citing alleged threats to the film-makers.

President-elect Hashim Thaci offered an optimistic view of Kosovo’s future during a speech in The Hague, despite impending prosecutions of former KLA guerrillas at the new ‘special court’ in the city.

Worries that people smugglers may reactivate the 'Adriatic route' across Albania to Italy, Italian and Albanian are to work together on measures to prevent this from happening.

In a move welcomed by medics and most members of the public, Romania has banned smoking in enclosed public venues such as bars, cafes and restaurants.

Macedonia's Constitutional Court ruled that the country's president can pardon alleged election-riggers, approving the controversial initiative that sparked rival protests overnight.

Bosnia's State Court on Friday returned the politician and tycoon Fahrudin Radoncic to detention for violating the terms of his house arrest.

The Kosovo government has condemned opposition Vetevendosje (Self-Determination Movement) party activists who overturned a truck with goods from Serbia in a protest linked to school textbooks.

Former Bosnian Serb serviceman Milomir Vasic was acquitted of war crimes, with the court ruling that he did not shoot a Bosniak prisoner dead in Bratunac in May 1992.

Albanians on Thursday night occupied a location in the Skopje municipality of Butel, protesting against the construction of another tall cross in the capital.

A change to the law in Romania has resulted in a surge of new political parties in the country, many of which seem far from serious in their intentions.

A court in Graz jailed a Bosnian citizen, Fikret Begic, for eight years for recruiting volunteers for the Islamic State, ISIS.

David Schwendiman, the chief prosecutor of the new Kosovo special war crimes court, said that the election of Hashim Thaci as the country’s president does not give him immunity from prosecution.

New dispute between the government and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro over a former royal chapel has fuelled old political tensions.

Serbia's government has launched a tender for the privatization of the ailing Smederevo steel mill, media reported Friday, following reports that China's HBIS Group may take it on.