October’s local polls are shaping into a bareknuckle fight between two ethnic Albanian blocs, each claiming to be the community’s ‘authentic’ representative. Local elections due in North Macedonia in ...

The new data comes as anti-immigration parties across Europe gain support, including in Czechia where a general election will be held next month. Migrants walk along the railway crossing in the ...

Police made multiple arrests at a student-led demonstration in Novi Sad on Friday night, which descended into violence following a police intervention.

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Banja Luka, the administrative seat of Republika Srpska, is unrecognisable from the multiethnic Bosnian city I once called home, where war criminals are now celebrated and the expelled never returned.

As beaches, historic sites and natural beauties in Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey draw increasing numbers of tourists, governments eye bumper profits – though experts warn that ...

Center-right coalition braces for an unprecedented political challenge with four separate no-confidence votes on its reform proposals – all due to be debated the same day. Romania’s Prime Minister ...

After the Republika Srpska Assembly passed a set of laws challenging the authority of Bosnia's state-level institutions in the Serb-majority entity, Bosniaks have denounced what they called a 'coup ...

BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy. It started in 2009; the financial crisis that hit the world a year ...

In his July 2023 letter, however, Grimheden, Frontex’s Fundamental Rights Officer, or FRO, said the plan “has not led to changes” and called for the agency to activate Article 46, the nuclear option ...

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to justice, ...

Escalating Bosnia's political crisis, and despite criticism, the Republika Srpska assembly adopted a new draft constitution and law allowing for the formation of a separate army and judiciary. The ...