Kosovo has entered uncharted legal territory after parliament failed to elect a new president on the official deadline day, as a boycott by opposition MPs prevented the vote due to the lack of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BIRN has identified a growing network of increasingly sophisticated and intrusive surveillance technology in Serbia, in schools, hospitals, on the roads and in the air, all without an adequate ...

For decades, sewage from the Albanian capital has been discharged untreated into the waters of the Lana River in Tirana. Aleko Miho struggles to explain just how polluted Albania’s Lana River is. “It ...

Some Balkan countries are planning to evacuate stranded citizens from the conflict zone around Iran, others have already managed to fly people out - although some have only issued security warnings.

Court orders detention for bank owner Aleksandar Djukanovic, brother of the country's former president, after police seized firearms, ammunition and ballistic vests at his family home. Police van ...

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground. Every day, ...