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Serbia's armed forces have proposed a return to conscription after more than a decade as an all-volunteer army, with the president vowing to "look into modernizing" the laws on military service. The announcement has met with resistance, with critics accusing the government of politicking.
As the new year chimed in, Kosovo's new visa-free relationship with the EU began, a measure long desired by Pristina and the country's citizens. However, a sluggish economy has meant that not all of Kosovo's 1.8 million people are ready to hop on a flight right away.
Hooked to an IV drip, 49-year-old legislator and mother of two Marinika Tepic pledges to keep up her hunger strike in a fight against what she says were fraudulent elections -- but for a host of other reasons, too.
On December 17, Serbs vote in snap parliamentary, provincial, and municipal elections. Polls suggest most of the races will be won by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and its allies. A key exception could be the capital, where the opposition is in a tight race.
A project uniting linguists and students from both sides of the Balkans' most contentious border tries to show Serbs and ethnic Albanians that they share more culture than they think. As it turns out, thousands of words "do not need translation."