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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

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 ...

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 ...

After the Republika Srpska Assembly passed a set of laws challenging the authority of Bosnia's state-level institutions in the Serb-majority entity, Bosniaks have denounced what they called a 'coup ...

Bullets seized from Serb gunmen in northern Kosovo last month were made in Serbia just last year, while mortar rounds and grenade launchers passed through Serbian state maintenance centres in 2018 and ...