The European Commission this week urged Albania’s premier to repeal controversial amendments to environmental and investment legislation in order to conserve nature and wildlife - but in parliament, ...

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 ...

A number of judges and prosecutors who joined the mass resignation of Kosovo Serbs from state bodies in 2022 reportedly want their old jobs back. From fresh battles over memory in Bosnia to the ...

European prosecutors charge 22 people in Greece, including four MPs, with involvement in EU agricultural funds fraud. Greek farmers and livestock breeders pritest outside the office of OPEKEPE in ...

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 ...

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 ...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available on ...

A notorious waste dump outside Mostar has been on fire for days – as locals pay the price for years of inaction by the authorities in the politically-troubled city. Summer mornings in Mostar have been ...

Donald Trump’s son-in-law is headlining a planned luxury development in Albania’s protected Narta Lagoon, but behind him lies a web of colourful business interests knee-deep in controversy. The fence ...

Albania has greenlighted construction of a luxury island resort by a company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law - but under the azure waters lie tonnes of unexploded WWII ordnance. On the western ...

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 ...