This week’s shutdown of Serbia-run post offices in north of Kosovo is only one of many such operations within the last three years. Since the summer of 2021, the north has constantly topped the ...

MPs meet members of an initiative that has collected 1.2 million signtaures, including 65,000 from Croatia, demanding safe and accsssible abortion rights for all women in the EU. Members of the My ...

New Ombudsman elected solely with the votes of the ruling majority – a break in tradition – after opposition MPS refused to participate in the vote. Socialist Party MPs during Shabani’s vote. Photo: ...

Efforts to provide teachers and books in the Roma language culminated last year with the opening of a library of Roma-language books in Prizren – and interest in it has grown ever since. Arzu Cukici ...

Pollution and sand extraction are destroying the Vardar River in North Macedonia, say the boatmen who sail its waters every year. As an organiser of the annual Gemidzii or ‘Boatmen’ regatta on North ...

Bulgaria’s coalition government - previously confident it would complete its mandate - quit on Thursday, following one of the biggest waves of protest in the country's history.

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

Opulent villas, island retreats, hunting lodges and yachts: Josip Broz Tito’s many properties were scattered across the republics of the former Yugoslavia - although some have fallen into disrepair ...

China’s Huawei has come to dominate the 5G rollout in Cyprus, with risks for data security and independent policymaking that go far beyond the island’s shores, experts warn. This post is also ...

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...

People in the Balkans remain far more religious than those in Central and Western Europe, a survey suggests. Archbishop Stefan of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. Archive photo: MIA A new survey based ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...