The 2026 report found that 47 per cent of its recommendations made in last year's report have been followed up, either fully or partially. Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European ...

The European Commission this week urged Albania’s premier to repeal controversial amendments to environmental and investment legislation in order to conserve nature and wildlife - but in parliament, ...

Former AC Milan and Croatia defender is suspected of illegally obtaining permits to operate a campsite business with the aid of a former head of a county tourism department. Dario Simic at a press ...

Huge crowds are expected to gather at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on Saturday as Bosnia marks the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide and buries ten newly identified victims. This post is also ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama claims the daily protests shaking Tirana are misguided or manipulated from outside. BIRN spoke with some of the most dedicated protesters to find out more about their hopes for ...

Thousands have joined the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, marking the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces. This post is also available in ...

Enlargement Commissioner urged Skopje to make constitutional changes to remove Bulgaria's EU membership blockade - and highlighted the progress made by current Balkan frontrunner Montenegro. EU ...

“We call on the European Commission to protect journalists whose freedom of movement is unjustly restricted, preventing them from performing their professional journalistic work, as well as to mediate ...

Nirha Efendic was 16 when her father and brother were killed in 1995. Photographs collected for a memorialisation project about the Srebrenica genocide are a powerful reminder of her family’s last ...

Ten more victims of the 1995 genocide were buried on Saturday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, with survivors calling on the perpetrators to acknowledge the truth and ask for forgiveness. This post ...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available on ...

More than three decades after the peace deal that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armin Graca's photographs and materials found in archives show how the former frontline still has an impact ...