The Balkan migrant route is being choked off. What happens next?
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called for early parliamentary elections on April 24, halfway through his term, and said he will seek support for joining the European Union.
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said in an interview with a German newspaper that he may shut down the so-called Balkan route for migrants altogether later this year.
Four Balkan countries announced daily caps on migrant arrivals on February 26, prompting criticism from the head of the United Nations.
Interior ministers from the European Union, Turkey, and the Balkans held fresh talks on February 25 amid major differences over ways to contain an escalating migrant crisis.
Austria and its Balkan neighbors agreed to tighten border controls and warned they may eventually have to shut their borders entirely.
The U.S. Defense Department says it has no evidence to corroborate Serbia's claim that two of its citizens were killed in an air strike in Libya last week.
Hundreds of demonstrators are spending a second night camping in the center of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, to demand new elections and to try to scuttle the election of a new president.
As countries across the Balkans prevent migrants crossing their frontiers, large numbers of people are finding themselves stuck at various border crossings. At the Macedonian transit camp in Tabanovce, just south of the Serbian border, hundreds of people are stranded. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
The bodies of two kidnapped Serbian Embassy staff members have been repatriated from Libya. The two were reported killed along with dozens of others on February 19 by U.S. air strikes on a suspected Islamic State training camp where they were being held in Libya. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
Hundreds of opposition supporters have installed tents in the center of Kosovo's capital, demanding the government's resignation.
The European Union has lost some of its allure for Balkan countries seeking to join, thanks to the migrant crisis and concerns about Britain leaving the bloc, Serbia's prime minister said on February 22.
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