Skopje court orders detention of former head of Service for General and Common Affairs under last government, as prosecutors ...

As the Belgrade authorities seek to counter ongoing protests, a government department has been pushing banks to hand over data about the accounts and transactions of five well-known activists.

A report by a government agency says that two years after twin earthquakes devastated Turkey, nearly 650,000 people still ...

Free of the burden of the 1990s, Serbia’s protesting students are focused on specific problems rather than final aims, and that’s why they might succeed where others failed, astrophysicist Tijana ...

Few of Central Europe’s NGOs, especially those involved in promoting minority rights and helping vulnerable groups, hold out much hope that the flow of frozen US aid will resume.

Without concerted action, pollution threatens to leave the Drin River and its main tributaries “lifeless”, environmentalists in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia warn.

In a system that favours the two big players, their smaller rivals have traditionally stood no chance – but might things be different in the looming May 2025 elections?

This year's trends report highlights five likely trends which will be driven or impacted by Donald Trump's return to the White House.

New law, which has yet to be adopted by the other house in the entity parliament, gives police much greater powers to intervene in cases of domestic violence, detain suspects – and monitor offenders ...

Joint letter signed by 40 organisations calls attention to troubling trend in Turkey of using judicial control measures, such as house arrests and travel bans, to silence independent voices in ...

BIRN looks at the contenders for prime minister in Kosovo’s February 9 election: Albin Kurti, Bedri Hamza, Lumir Abdixhiku and Ramush Haradinaj.