Prosecutors called for jail terms for Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and the former acting director of the entity’s Official Gazette, Milos Lukic, saying they deliberately obstructed ...

A Turkish court has blocked access to the YouTube, X and Instagram accounts of a journalist whose focus on Kurdish rights has repeatedly drawn the hostile attention of the authorities.

Prilep is home to one of North Macedonia’s oldest theatres, a local cultural landmark – but the building is dilapidated and ...

Once a symbol of Kosovo’s progress but now dilapidated, Pristina’s Grand Hotel is a sad testament to the disastrous effects of corruption, ownership battles and failed privatisation.

BIRN reported last year that a Chinese-run copper and gold mine in eastern Serbia has been operating without a valid permit ...

Nenad Nesic went from police officer to politician to one of the most powerful cabinet ministers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Milanovic called for peace and a battle against inequality and corruption at a ceremony in Zagreb that was shunned by ...

In finding Greece responsible for a “systematic practice of pushbacks”, the European Court of Human Rights has offered a glimmer of hope for asylum seekers summarily sent back to Turkey - but few ...

Local authorities, particularly in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity, are ignoring a 2005 moratorium on the sale or rental of state property pending new state-level legislation. Pressure is building on ...

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev issued a decree to rename the capital’s airport after 19th Century rebel Vassil Levski, one ...

US envoy Richard Grenell denounced the imprisonment and Hague trial of Hashim Thaci for war crimes and blamed Europeans and ...

While Slovakia’s prime minister seeks to build a ‘barrier against progressivism’, his government is strengthening relationships with far-right extremists. The case of Daniel Bombic will test the ...