Prosecutorial Council dismisses requests from several Serb prosecutors who joined a mass boycott of Kosovo institutions in 2022 to resume their former posts. A number of judges and prosecutors who ...

The 2026 report found that 47 per cent of its recommendations made in last year's report have been followed up, either fully or partially. Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European ...

Thirty years after they were first aired, claims that hundreds of foreigners paid Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to shoot at besieged Sarajevans have resurfaced. But the evidence remains thin and ...

Former AC Milan and Croatia defender is suspected of illegally obtaining permits to operate a campsite business with the aid of a former head of a county tourism department. Dario Simic at a press ...

Kremlin wirepullers may be encouraging the stalemate preventing elections being held in the autonomous region of Gagauzia, Moldovan politicians say. A months-long electoral deadlock in Moldova’s ...

From fresh battles over memory in Bosnia to the acquittal of North Macedonia’s former PM and Turkey’s post-coup legacy, this week’s Balkan Insight Premium stories show how contested history keeps the ...

The first instalment in a new BIRN series examines how World War II memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina were built to foster unity between Yugoslavia's peoples, but have become instruments of ...

Elsewhere, Robert Fico is the great political survivor as he celebrates 20 years since winning his first election; strike by Czech public media staff called after government unveils reforms to funding ...

One year after the blaze that killed 63 people watching a concert at a nightclub in the town of Kocani, four separate court cases are ongoing – and relatives seeking justice are in for a long wait.

Enlargement Commissioner urged Skopje to make constitutional changes to remove Bulgaria's EU membership blockade - and highlighted the progress made by current Balkan frontrunner Montenegro. EU ...

Protesting Albanians are not against tourist resorts or foreign investments, but they’re tired of being treated as passive subjects of decisions made by higher powers. Every time I visit Albania, the ...