Though campaigning for the Macedonian presidential elections does not officially start until October 1, the political debates are underway and the top topic is the continued presence of NATO forces in the country.
Montenegro's president is trying to reconcile Serbia's feuding political forces, while at home his fellow citizens make it clear they wish to be as close to Europe as possible - and as far as possible from Serbia.
Behgjet Pacolli, the Kosovo Albanian multi-millionaire who weds Italian pop icon Ana Oxo tomorrow and whose business links with the Kremlin may yet bring down Boris Yeltsin, is living proof that fact can be stranger than fiction.
Macedonia's governing coalition was recently saved at a meeting at a Skopje restaurant. But after October's presidential election campaign is over, it will take more than shared cups of coffee to keep the two main parties together.
An OSCE plan which seeks to build an environment for free media via initial strict regulation has raised fears of censorship among Kosovo journalists.
Police violence against anti-regime protestors in Belgrade escalated further on Thursday night, but opposition leaders are urging their followers to stand firm in the face of the batons.
Fatos Nano and Sali Berisha, two sworn enemies who are poles apart in Albanian politics, have both confronted challenges from their younger colleagues. The battle has been hard - and has already claimed one casualty.
Bulgaria's trade deficit has widened this year. However, this should not be attributed to the war in Yugoslavia, but inherent economic weaknesses.
The hope of the West - that a new generation would bring normality to Albania's political scene - has been dashed. Instead the old grandees are back in charge, but this time the familiar brawling could have regional consequences.
In the last few days a few bridges have been thrown across the divide between the leaders of the Serbian opposition and the country's maverick political figure Vuk Draskovic, once more raising the possibility of a united opposition to Slobodan Milosevic's
