Semitic and pro-Hitler chants before match against Ajax trigger arrests and draw condemnation from government and Israeli embassy.

Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week takes a look at salacious tales making unpleasant headlines, political deals being mooted and insiders spilling secrets.

As Prime Minister Edi Rama rules out resignation in response to violent protests, a political solution is needed to calm the unrest, experts argue.

Zagreb has issued eight conditions for supporting Montenegro's EU membership, mostly relating to the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia – and all of which it calls 'clearly achievable'.

A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to buy portable anti-aircraft weapons from North Korea, breaching US sanctions.

Edi Rama accuses opposition of trying to 'pull Albania down' after a second night of violence saw government buildings and businesses attacked and set on fire amid clashes between student protesters ...

Prime Minister Albin Kurti announces plan to move ahead with stalled changes to civil legislation as opposition MP attacks provisions deemed hostile to 'traditional family values' such as same-sex ...

Prime Minister Albin Kurti announces working group to assist appeals of convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders – while the country's Ombudsperson accuses the Hague court of lacking ...

Police made 23 arrests as violence erupted between students and police officers at a demonstration in Tirana linked to the ongoing ‘Flamingo Revolution’ anti-government protests.

Croatian leaders dismiss Belgrade's protest note accusing Zagreb of meddling in looming elections and suggest Serbia's under-pressure ruling party is using the claim to mobilise voters.

Party leaders were criss-crossing the country assembling backstage coalition deals ‘on the road’ long before all the ballot-counting was finished.

Controversial reform of local government dissolving smaller municipalities into larger units passes after stormy debate, with protesters demonstrating outside parliament.