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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands have joined the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, marking the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces. This post is also available in ...

The draft law seeks to bring back journalistic independence, editorial freedom, unhindered access to reliable information and a space for open public discourse. Studios of Hungary’s Media Services and ...

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 ...

US General Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump, is to host the ‘First Annual Economic Summit Europe 2026’ in Republika Srpska in May. Michael Flynn speaks to Trump ...