Police arrested 25 alleged members of a nationalist, far-right youth group in Thessaloniki in northern Greece for robbery and violent crimes.

Lida Hujic, a popular youth presenter during the golden era of Radio Television Sarajevo in the late 1980s, recalls the rebellious past of a public broadcaster which today, as BHRT, faces an ...

Illustration: BIRN/Igor Vujcic. Biometric surveillance and facial recognition technologies are expanding rapidly across the Balkans, raising serious privacy and ethical concerns, particularly in ...

Press freedom has continued a downward slide in most Balkan countries according to the latest report by Reporters Without Borders – although Albania, Montenegro and Serbia have bucked the trend.

Thirty years after rebel Serbs shelled Zagreb, killing seven and wounding at least 200 others, the mayor and survivors honoured the victims of what he called 'a cowardly act of revenge'.

The Dalmatian coast is particularly affected by the overexploitation of water and energy, with peak consumption exceeding normal summer demand by 300 per cent. Just over 80 per cent of drinking ...

As a day of remembrance for the children killed during the siege of Sarajevo was marked, three decades on, the direct perpetrators are yet to be held accountable. This post is also available in ...

The head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Tatjana Dimitrovska – now herself the subject of corruption allegations – insisted she was innocent and ignored calls to quit. The head of North ...

BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace. In March this year, the air traffic control ...

On May 1, 1995, Croatian forces struck back to retake areas of the country that rebel Serbs had seized in 1991 as Yugoslavia disintegrated. The policeman who the Serbs surrendered to recalls what ...

Kosovo was widely criticised over its 2018 deportation of six Turkish teachers to stand trial on terrorism charges in Turkey, but four who have since returned continue to live in fear and uncertainty.

Supporters of banned far-right candidate Calin Georgescu rally in Bucharest in April. Photo: EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT. A new report by analysis company OpenMinds ahead of the Romanian presidential ...