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Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday in the Croatian capital to protest against planned pension reforms raising the age of retirement and making early retirement more difficult.

Macedonia’s government will try to speed up the implementation of the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece after parliament backed starting the procedure to change the country's name, with the opposition expelling its MPs who supported the deal.

Macedonia's parliament has passed the government motion for the constitution to be amended to allow the country's name to be changed - as required under the historic agreement with Greece.

A former Bosnian Serb army commander, Marko Milosevic – who in January was acquitted of all charges related to the Srebrenica genocide – is demanding compensation for the time he spent in custody and for damage to his health.

After Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Albania to close down schools linked to Fethullah Gulen and 'extradite the terrorists', Albania's Ditmir Bushati said Tirana had to respect its international obligations on extradition.

Advisory body to the Council of Europe on Friday said Romania’s reforms to criminal justice legislation weaken the fight against corruption and other serious crimes. 

Senior US official Matthew Palmer urged Serbia and Kosovo on Friday to make the most of a "historic opportunity" to end their decade-long dispute.

Serbia said it would talk to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, about Kosovo's moves to change its lightly armed security force, the KSF, into a de-facto army.

Experts say moves by the tax authority to oblige newlyweds to declare all their wedding suppliers may sound ridiculous – but form part of a justifiable clampdown on tax evasion and money laundering.

A government move ordering media websites to register with the tax authority as part of an alleged 'anti-defamation drive' was criticized on Thursday by the OSCE's Freedom of the Media Representative and by the organisation Civil Rights Defenders.

A Bosnian Serb barred from standing in the recent presidential election is hoping the European Court of Human Rights will back his complaint of institutional discrimination.

The 1992-1995 Bosnian war spawned a new literary genre – books that fly in the face of established facts, written by or about those convicted of the killings.

Ahead of a key vote in Macedonia's parliament expected on Friday that may determine the fate of the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece, opposition parties remain determined to reject it.

It seems that as one dispute is on the brink of being resolved, new ones are appearing across the region, while officials struggle to find ways to deal with the legacies of the bad policies of their predecessors. 

Kosovo's parliament on Thursday approved three laws on the Kosovo Security Force, KSF, expanding its competences and avoiding the need for constitutional changes required to change it into a regular army.

A Kosovo Albanian woman has for the first time spoken out on TV about her experience as a rape victim during the war – and about her unsuccessful struggle for justice in court.

The head of global Orthodoxy has reportedly dismissed the unrecognised Macedonian Orthodox Church's request for recognition, saying the situations in Macedonia and Ukraine are very different.

The taboo on acknowledging violence against women is steadily collapsing in Kosovo – but the battle is not yet won and must continue with added intensity.

Once held up as a success story of Europe’s eastern outreach, EU trust in Moldova is suddenly in short supply.

The 75-year-old former Yugoslav state news agency was officially closed down in 2015, but continues operating in a legal limbo. Now the government wants to sell the name.