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An internal report found Bulgarian authorities “likely” interfered in the efforts of activists to rescue three teenage Egyptian migrants on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria in late 2024. The ...

A recent mass shooting at a school in Belgrade had a widespread impact online in the Balkans, sparking a series of copycat threats, misleading articles, fake video footage and insensitive reports in ...

Edi Rama slated the court decision suspending Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku while she faces a graft probe – and threatened to take the matter to the Constitutional Court. Albanian PM Edi Rama ...

Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy.

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

The mighty skyscraper in Zagreb that once housed the largest publishing house in the Balkans looks set to be demolished after being gutted by a blaze. Croatia’s Minister of Construction, Branko Bacic, ...

The Hague Tribunal’s archives reveal fascinating details about the confidential meeting between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman at Karadjordjevo in ...

Unlike Wikipedia in other languages, the Croatian version refers to the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp as a “collection camp” - as well as playing down fascist crimes and ignoring right-wingers’ ...

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 ...

Internal documents show Frontex and the European Commission are well aware of Bulgaria’s dire human rights record on its border with Turkey, but the EU’s executive arm had other priorities – expanding ...

A church service in Shkoder in November 2016 to celebrate the beatification of 38 Catholics who were executed by Albania’s former communist regime. Photo: EPA/STR. How Albania Became the World’s First ...