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.

Women from impoverished parts of Albania are being lured into work as day labourers on illegal cannabis plantations; if caught, they face paying a high price for what their lawyers say is effectively ...

Kindergartens across the country are full and oversubscribed, leaving many children on long waiting lists – and plans to ...

Kosovo's Specialist Chambers sentenced three former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to prison terms after prosecutors reached a 'historic' plea deal with them, in which they admitted witness ...

MICT rejects former Drina Corps commander's request for early release, saying his expressions of remorse for the 1995 ...