The battle over the election of a new president has laid bare a political culture in which procedural rules are being weaponised to bring constitutional processes to a halt. Kosovo’s political ...

Ahead of a vote in parliament on Thursday, the ruling Socialists reject a prosecution request to support lifting the immunity of dismissed former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, allowing for ...

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, ...

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 ...

Montenegro is finally showing signs it is serious about restoring the Ulcinj Saltworks, a crucial ‘buffet table’ for migratory birds that the European Union wants properly protected as it considers ...

The deadline for MPs to elect a new head of state expires soon, and a fresh election looms if they do not compromise on a name – or grant Vjosa Osmani a second term. For weeks, Vjosa Osmani has been ...

Police investigations reveal that organised crime groups often use ordinary people and passenger transport agencies to smuggle their illegal profits from EU countries and elsewhere back into Albania.

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 Roma community in Croatia complains of ghettoisation and segregation in schools, while Serbs still face discrimination in employment three decades after the Croatian war. The nine-member family ...

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.

New report says journalists’ safety is under ‘sustained pressure’ in Europe – with Turkey, Serbia and Bulgaria listed among the worst offenders. Turkish journalists’ protest. Photo: Journalists’ Union ...

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 ...