The Western military alliance’s new national spending benchmark on defence and security may cause problems for smaller and poorer NATO member states in the Balkans who cannot afford 5 per cent ...

Celjeta Mema, who emigrated to Germany. Photo: Gabriel Hilty. Leaving Albania, the Country’s Youth Seek a More Stable Future Martine M Christensen and Gabriel Hilty Tirana, Vlora BIRN June 30 ...

Over 70 people were arrested after protesters clashed with police in the wake of a student-led demonstration for snap elections that brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Belgrade.

From politics to the media business, high expectations often go hand-in-hand with disappointments big and small, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

Serbia sent record amounts of arms to Israel last year. But President Aleksandar Vucic said that since Israel attacked Iran, such exports have been stopped. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and ...

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

President Nicusor Dan on Friday designated Ilie Bolojan, leader of the National Liberal Party, PNL, as Romania’s next prime minister. The announcement ended nearly a month of negotiations ...

Joining the TWiCE team is Edit Inotai, BIRN’s Budapest correspondent, who discusses the expected results of a “national consultation” held in Hungary on whether Ukraine should be allowed to ...

After missing Friday's deadline, Romania faces action from Brussels unless it comes up with a plan by autumn to cut the budget deficit from 9.3 per cent of GDP to 7 per cent.

Mustafa Stovrag lost his appeal against his three-year jail sentence for beating up Bosnian Serb soldiers who were being held as prisoners of war in Gorazde in 1993.

A partly ripped electoral poster of right-wing AUR party leader George Simion, covered with a sticker that reads 'Death to Fascism!'. Photo: EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT. Romania Moves to Confront ...

A building destroyed by a NATO bombing raid in Pristina in April 1999. Photo: EPA/DMITRI KHROUPOV/SS/KR. Kosovo’s Capital Plans Museum Highlighting Long Struggle for Peace Serbeze Haxhiaj BIRN ...