The Western military alliance’s new national spending benchmark on defence and security may cause problems for smaller and poorer NATO member states in the Balkans who cannot afford 5 per cent ...

Celjeta Mema, who emigrated to Germany. Photo: Gabriel Hilty. Leaving Albania, the Country’s Youth Seek a More Stable Future Martine M Christensen and Gabriel Hilty Tirana, Vlora BIRN June 30 ...

Over 70 people were arrested after protesters clashed with police in the wake of a student-led demonstration for snap elections that brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Belgrade.

Serbia sent record amounts of arms to Israel last year. But President Aleksandar Vucic said that since Israel attacked Iran, such exports have been stopped.

From politics to the media business, high expectations often go hand-in-hand with disappointments big and small, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic.

Polish President Andrzej Duda (L) and President-elect Karol Nawrocki (R) meet at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, 03 June 2025. EPA-EFE/Pawel Supernak Nawrocki’s Victory May Prove ...

Whatever information Thanasis Koukakis had been sharing with his readers, it was not quite enough. Someone wanted more. Twice in the space of two years, the financial journalist’s phone calls ...

North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning and advised its citizens in Israel and Iran to follow national emergency portals there and follow the instructions of these countries ...

As well as the large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology in urban areas, the authorities have sought to monitor opponents, activists and journalists, says ...

The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission welcomed positive progress but warned that significant challenges to inclusion in Croatia remain. Supporters of the LGBTQ+ movement attend Gay ...

Nuclear vision: A key question will be whether the energy crisis will provide enough momentum to finally restart nuclear projects that have been stalled for decades. Czechia is due to select the ...