Four days before parliamentary elections, Serbian police arrested at least seven individuals suspected of planning violent actions on election day and plotting to ‘overthrow the state’.

Russia remains ready to aid its Balkan allies in their electoral endeavours and sabotage EU and NATO membership prospects, as Vladimir Putin’s recent efforts to boost Milorad Dodik and Aleksandar ...

The prime minister says he doesn’t believe in Nato solidarity, even as Slovakia relies on its partners for military protection and continues its alliance commitments. So why is he using such damaging ...

BIRN has confirmed that at least three associates of US President Donald Trump attended a campaign rally for Milorad Dodik’s Serb nationalist SNSD party, raising questions of possible violations of ...

Romanian lawmakers have voted in favour of a new government led by the politically independent Luca Niculescu, ending five months of political crisis.

Kosovo is failing to access hundreds of millions in EU funding after two years of political wrangling left Brussels-mandated reforms on hold.

Six days before crucial Serbian parliamentary elections, digital rights investigators report with “high confidence” that two prominent figures connected to the anti-government protest movement were ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Thousands of people joined student-led protests in Tirana at the weekend to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, as clashes with police resulted in more injuries and arrests.

The Upper Horizons hydropower scheme threatens to forever alter the vital Neretva river that flows from Bosnia to the Adriatic via Croatia, threatening ecosystems, communities and a centuries-old way ...

Ahead of Serbia's crucial elections this month, members of a commission tasked with bringing order to the electoral roll say they were ‘obstructed’ by authorities.

As Prime Minister Edi Rama rules out resignation in response to violent protests, a political solution is needed to calm the unrest, experts argue.