Slavko Simic of the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party pleaded not guilty to involvement in violent attacks with stun grenades and bricks on journalists covering protests by Serbs in north Kosovo in ...

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

Three years after hackers targeted Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state parliament, it remains the only country in Europe without a Computer Emergency Response Team because of administrative obstacles and ...

A decision to not grant accreditation to multiple Serbian-language media outlets wishing to cover Sunday’s local elections in Kosovo has sparked strong condemnations from NGOs and international ...

The Bosnian Serb strongman has named his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August.

Activists from several Balkan countries have been detained as Israeli forces raided the Global Sumud Flotilla, a convoy of vessels which was trying to deliver humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Gaza. A ...

From the BIRN archives: When the European Union gave what is now North Macedonia candidate status in 2005, people celebrated. But Ana Petruseva argued that, from that point on, it was up to the ...

Against a backdrop of growing regional insecurity, Romania is pushing to rejuvenate and expand its depleted reserve forces. Romanian cadets attend the opening ceremony of the new academic year at ...

Seven men accused of digging a tunnel into a storage depot where evidence for trials was kept by the Higher Court in Podgorica were acquitted because of a lack of proof. The tunnel into the court ...

“A few weeks before the 2024 election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina started, my phone rang – it was a top-ranking person in the city administration and the ruling party. This person had never ...

As head of Albania’s special anti-graft and organised crime prosecution, Altin Dumani proved no one is ‘untouchable’ anymore. Experts say he set a high bar for his successor.