In the first week of Hashim Thaci's trial for obstruction of justice, the prosecution alleged at the Hague court that the former Kosovo president attempted to influence witnesses during his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy. It started in 2009; the financial crisis that hit the world a year ...

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 ...

Do you live in the Balkans or France, and have you been awarded child support payments after divorce? Was the process easy – and did you receive the money as the court ordered? Supporters of Ukraine ...

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 ...

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 ...

The removal of the terms ‘Macedonian identity’ and ‘Macedonian language’ from the European Parliament’s progress report on North Macedonia has reheated a conflict the EU tried to cool down. Ever since ...

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 ...