Protest against threats to media freedom in Zagreb, Croatia, March 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT. 20 Years On, New Threats Worsen Outlook for Free Media in Balkans Sinisa Jakov Marusic Skopje ...

Over 70 people were arrested after protesters clashed with police in the wake of a student-led demonstration for snap elections that brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Belgrade.

Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023.

Eight months on, the anger and protests triggered by the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station canopy, which killed 16 people, is not subsiding. On June 28, a date filled with symbolism in ...

From politics to the media business, high expectations often go hand-in-hand with disappointments big and small, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

The first session of reconstructed government; Photo: Montenegrin Government Montenegro’s Largest-ever Government Won’t Last Long, Expert Predicts Borislav Visnjic Podgorica BIRN July 24 ...

BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace ...

North Macedonia's Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski speaking in parliament. Photo: Government of North Macedonia. North Macedonia Govt’s First-Year Report Card: Must Do Better Sinisa Jakov ...

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

UNA’s Undoing: The Rise and Fall of Bosnia’s ‘Dodik TV’ Selma Ucanbarlic Sarajevo BIRN June 23, 202510:14 Selma Ucanbarlic Sarajevo BIRN June 23, 202510:14 ...

Bulgaria opposition leader Kiril Petkov on Wednesday unexpectedly announced his resignation from the We Continue the Change party and from parliament.

A family member of victims of the Meja massacre, Lush Krasniqi, near his brothers' graves at Meja cemetery in Kosovo. Photo: BIRN. ‘Convicted on Paper’: Defendants Absent in War Crime Trials ...