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

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 ...

Outside programme contributors to Albania’s indebted public broadcaster say they haven’t paid for months and are in the dark as to when they will receive the money they are owed. Albania’s public ...

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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.

Attending a World War II victory parade in Beijing, the Serbian and Slovak leaders used the occasion to curry favour with Russia's authoritarian president. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and ...

Questions are being asked about the validity of English language proficiency certificates required of public officials in North Macedonia following allegations of fraud. Prior to being appointed ...

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 ...

With the oldest media outlet serving Serbia’s Slovak minority now a government mouthpiece, new ways must be found to get the truth out to the community.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...