Last week, votes from governing Socialist Party MPs ensured that parliament backed a bill that allows concessions to build and operate port facilities for tourist vessels such as cruise ship at ...

Pristina Basic Court hands down a detention order for Kosovo Serb Dejan Pelevic, suspected of war crimes in Skenderaj/Srbica that left 15 dead and 16 missing in 1999. This post is also available in ...

Evidence presented at multiple war crimes trials point to the deep involvement of two Bosnian Serb men in the persecution and murder of Bosniaks in the Kalinovik region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in ...

Turkey experiences a second school shooting in two days after a teenage student’s attack leaves 20 wounded and two students and a teacher dead, as well as the shooter himself. Ayser Calik Secondary ...

Serbian Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovic said in court that he did nothing illegal, claiming that his trial over the removal of cultural heritage protection from the bombed-out Yugoslav Army HQ is ...

Afrim Krasniqi’s new book highlights the US radio station’s crucial role in bringing about change in Albania in 1990 – then ‘the most closed society in Europe’. Afrim Krasniqi is explaining the ...

Western Balkan leaders are taking diplomatic sides in the US-Israeli war on Iran and the region faces escalating energy prices – with the economic impact likely to be more serious than any potential ...

Police raids targeted call centre fraud operations across Tirana, with 10 suspects arrested and almost a million euros in cash seized. Albanian police. Photo illustration: Geri Emiri/BIRN. Albanian ...

Yet because the election system is designed to favour strong parties, a two-thirds parliamentary majority seems to have become the norm in Hungary, which contains its own dangers.

Concerns are raised after the Bosnian state court rejects an indictment of Dario Ristic - determining that Ristic, who fought for Russia in Ukraine, did not commit a criminal offence due to his ...

A year since the election of political novice Karol Nawrocki, his presidency has unfolded against the backdrop of a shakeup of Poland’s political landscape, signalling a generational change and a ...

The arrest of opposition politician Umit Erkol on corruption allegations has intensified claims that President Erdogan’s government is using the judiciary to target political rivals in a sweeping ...