Presidential, parliamentary and local elections were all held in Serbia this Sunday, and as in other recent polls, concerns have been raised by the success of the nationalist SNS party. Its leader, Tomislav Nikolic, came within a whisker of frontrunner Boris Tadic in the vote for the presidency and the two now face a run-off. The SNS has now begun to support Serbia's hopes of joining the EU, but is the party likely to take power?
Nearly three years after it declared itself independent from Serbia, Kosovo is holding its first elections. But Belgrade still refuses to recognise Pristina's sovereignty. Meanwhile, Serbs still living in the breakaway republic are divided. Those in the northern parts of Kosovo, close to the border with Serbia, are expected to boycott the ballot. But elsewhere in Kosovo, some Serbs are planning to turn out.
A rail link running directly between Sarajevo and Belgrade has reopened after almost 17 years. The track was cut off during the war in the former Yugoslavia. The damage was so substantial that the journey now takes two hours longer. We look at what this symbolic train tells us about ethnic divisions in Bosnia today, shortly before elections there.
Mustapha Aït Idir feels lost in his small Sarajevo house surrounded by construction sites, proper houses and ruins. Back from Guantanamo where he spent seven years, he told FRANCE 24 about his detention.
Laurent ROUY 
