Turkey experiences a second school shooting in two days after a teenage student’s attack leaves 20 wounded and two students and a teacher dead, as well as the shooter himself. Ayser Calik Secondary ...

Yet because the election system is designed to favour strong parties, a two-thirds parliamentary majority seems to have become the norm in Hungary, which contains its own dangers.

Concerns are raised after the Bosnian state court rejects an indictment of Dario Ristic - determining that Ristic, who fought for Russia in Ukraine, did not commit a criminal offence due to his ...

Police raids targeted call centre fraud operations across Tirana, with 10 suspects arrested and almost a million euros in cash seized. Albanian police. Photo illustration: Geri Emiri/BIRN. Albanian ...

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at future goals as well as lost opportunities from the past. Vjosa Osmani answers questions after delivering a speech in Berlin, October 2025.

The two countries’ failure to maintain liaisons to the EU’s criminal justice agency – partly for political reasons – is a setback to vital cooperation against cross-border organised crime groups. In ...

The arrest of opposition politician Umit Erkol on corruption allegations has intensified claims that President Erdogan’s government is using the judiciary to target political rivals in a sweeping ...

Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza. In early March, ...

President Erdogan’s ruling party has taken control of the important municipality of Bursa following the arrest of its opposition mayor on April 4, along with 30 others. Bursa Municipality headquarters ...

Kosovo will face a much more hostile international environment if far-right parties gain more power in core EU states like France and Germany, while the US under Trump remains indifferent to the ...

US vice president heaps praise on Hungary’s right-wing leader in a late attempt to swing the weekend election Viktor Orban’s way. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomes US Vice President JD ...

A momentous election spells change not just for Hungary but also for much of the Western Balkans, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights. Pristina Basic Court hands ...