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The arrest of Fahrudin Radoncic, its timing and the way it was done, has opened up many questions about the impartiality of the rule of law in Bosnia.

At a meeting on a new law on strategic investment in Kosovo, participants blamed corruption, weak rule of law and the ongoing political crisis for the poor rate of foreign investment.

Romania is to scrap the law that allows prisoners to have their sentences reduced if they publish books behind bars - some of which, it appears, were written by paid ghost writers.

Opposition parties with little money to run conventional election campaigns plan to make contact with potential supporters on social media networks.

Development actors like UNDP are supporting communities in the Balkans as they deal with the stress caused by the refugee flow, helping them to sustain their tradition of hospitality.

Kosovo Serb political party chief Ivanovic, who was under house arrest pending his appeal against his recent war crimes conviction for ordering ethnic Albanians’ murders, was ordered back into custody.

Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi, accused of hacking the personal data of US security staff and sending it to ISIS, appeared for the first time in a court in Virginia on Wednesday.

Albania says corridor linking Albania and Montenegro will enhance connectivity between the two countries and improve transport links to EU member states Italy and Greece as well.

Bosnia's State Prosecution claims that Fahrudin Radoncic illegally influenced the deposition of a witness in the trial of the alleged drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo.

The head of Serbia’s Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, said members of the ethnic Serbian community in Kosovo will vote once again in Serbian general elections.

The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment against seven former policemen from Janja, charging them with crimes against humanity in the north-eastern town from 1992 to 1994.

Albania’s government has approved an increased payment of 645,000 euros for legal advice given by Cherie Blair’s law firm Omnia Strategy in an arbitrage case.

The Bosnian state court confirmed a crimes against humanity indictment against ex-fighter Dragoja Zmijanjac, who is accused of shooting dead a Bosniak civilian in Prijedor in 1992.

Defiant celebrations of the disputed Bosnian Serb ‘Republic Day’ holiday brought unwelcome divisions back to the ethnically-mixed town of Prijedor, where locals usually seek to avoid tensions.

Vote will take place against a backdrop of continued rows over NATO membership and amid concern about whether new, fairer election rules will be in place.

Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev told BIRN in an interview that preparations are not yet complete for free and fair early elections in April aimed at ending the country's political crisis.

The so-called third way in politics has always been more Catholic than most voters realized - and has got its way with a HDZ and Church-run government

Bosniak parents in Srebrenica have threatened to boycott the local primary school in the latest row over language and education in the country’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska.

The Albanian state-owned energy company OSHEE has sacked scores of workers this week as part of its continuing attempts to tackle the problem of electricity theft.

The pro-Russian opposition is holding an anti-NATO party in the capital Podgorica to celebrate the ‘Serb New Year’ with the blessing of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.