Ahead of a vote in parliament on Thursday, the ruling Socialists reject a prosecution request to support lifting the immunity of dismissed former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, allowing for ...

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, ...

The upcoming verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his co-accused will have enormous consequences for the defendants themselves, for the court, for Kosovo and for ...

The deadline for MPs to elect a new head of state expires soon, and a fresh election looms if they do not compromise on a name – or grant Vjosa Osmani a second term. For weeks, Vjosa Osmani has been ...

Athens appeal court upholds guilty verdicts for members of prescribed extremist party, five-and-a-half years after the first-instance ruling. Ioannis Lagos, member of the leadership of Golden Dawn, at ...

Police investigations reveal that organised crime groups often use ordinary people and passenger transport agencies to smuggle their illegal profits from EU countries and elsewhere back into Albania.

Study reveals disturbing rise in levels of online abusive behaviour among 10 to 14-year-olds in Croatian schools – and a reluctance among most children to report abuse. Precko Elementary School in ...

The Roma community in Croatia complains of ghettoisation and segregation in schools, while Serbs still face discrimination in employment three decades after the Croatian war. The nine-member family ...

In the coming months, Bulgaria will probably hold its eighth election in four years. But will this calm the political turbulence, or will rising nationalist forces in parliament bring new problems as ...

For decades, sewage from the Albanian capital has been discharged untreated into the waters of the Lana River in Tirana. Aleko Miho struggles to explain just how polluted Albania’s Lana River is. “It ...

New report says journalists’ safety is under ‘sustained pressure’ in Europe – with Turkey, Serbia and Bulgaria listed among the worst offenders. Turkish journalists’ protest. Photo: Journalists’ Union ...

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground. Every day, ...