An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say ...

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

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 ...

Three decades after the first armed skirmishes in Croatia, a selective interpretation of the war for independence is still hampering inter-ethnic reconciliation and blighting the country’s potential ...

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.

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future. Illustration: Sanja ...

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The new head of RTSH, Eni Vasili, admits to BIRN that the company is facing a dire financial situation – after several contributors revealed they had not been paid for months. Eni Vasili (middle), the ...

Bulgaria faces huge demographic challenges, but optimists point to recent migration trends as cause for at least cautious optimism. Google “Bulgaria” and “demography” and you will rapidly learn that ...

Anger erupted after top officials from Sofia attended the opening of a Bulgarian cultural club in North Macedonia that is named after controversial Nazi collaborator Ivan Mihailov. This post is also ...

Marking four months since the Novi Sad railway station disaster, tens of thousands of student-led protesters gathered in the country’s third city, Nis, for an 18-hour blockade demanding official ...