After the murder of a woman in Kosovo at the weekend, protesters took to the streets of Pristina to demand accountability, high-level resignations and an end to gender-based violence.

On June 8, Monika Silva-Koniuszek was murdered in Ecuador. After obtaining a drive containing files the Polish activist had compiled, BIRN uncovered a network of companies linked to Albanian gangs ...

Following an attack on a gendarme guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia's caretaker Interior Minister Ivica Dacic raised the terror threat status to the highest level.

Slovenia’s right-wing government is expected to double down on its agenda after losing two out of four plebiscites this month, but civil society says it is ready to fight a drift into ...

The Student List comes to power with popular goodwill but faces institutionalised corruption, entrenched criminal networks and economic mismanagement left behind by Aleksandar Vucic’s 14 years of rule ...

Frontex is to become a fully-fledged “European returns agency” with the ability to intervene in border emergencies and expand its operations beyond Europe.

Opposition leaders and media associations condemned the use of official communication channels to promote presidential candidate Iliana Iotova and criticised the government’s domineering language dire ...

Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat to Student List in major parliamentary elections on Sunday. The result brings an end to 14 years of rule by Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party.

An analysis of Bosnian court verdicts in cases of wartime sexual violence shows deep inconsistencies in sentencing, a tendency to give more weight to mitigating circumstances, and a failure to ...

Latest figures confirm that the Student List won an outright majority in the parliamentary elections, ending the 14-year rule of the Serbian Progressive Party and strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic vowed to defeat the student protest movement, but lost in the end. Other movements across the region can learn lessons from the Serbian students about tactics and ...

European officials and leaders from Balkan states congratulated the Student List on its election victory, expressing hopes for democratic changes that will accelerate Serbia’s progress towards EU ...