Actors, musicians, celebrities and members of the public said farewell to Kiril Pop Hristov, a Macedonian actor known as 'Kili', following his sudden death at his home in Ecuador. Kiril Pop Hristov, ...

Opposition parties and rights groups say law amendments pushed through under the banner of European integration tighten government control over the security sector. National Security Agency ...

As protests continue to shake Serbia, minority Hungarian and Slovak communities in the country’s northern Vojvodina region describe growing political pressure, shrinking autonomy and a quiet exodus of ...

First conscripts arrive at barracks for two months of basic training, as Croatia's government reintroduces obligatory military service almost two decades after it was abolished. An officer directs new ...

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 ...

From Romanian chocolate thieves to unscrupulous Albanian immigrants, British tabloids are never short of Balkan bugbears, as Marcus Tanner explains in his latest despatch from the UK capital. So many ...

In the fifth instalment of BIRN’s series about war-displaced people’s continuing links to the Balkans, Sandra Ivanov tells how her family’s emigration to New Zealand forged a commitment to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Forty-five years after his first arrest at a student protest, former political prisoner Xun Cetta’s long struggle against inequity casts a harsh light on an opportunistic post-war political class in ...

Albin Kurti's ruling Vetevendosje party pledges to appeal to the Constitutional Court against President Vjosa Osmani's dissolution of parliament, which was triggered by MPs failing to vote for her ...