In the latest in a series of espionage verdicts, Bojan Jevtic was jailed for six years for leaking confidential police information to Serbia's intelligence service, the BIA. Bojan Jevtic at the ...

Most former Yugoslav countries have been supporting Ukraine since the Russian invasion, recalling their own wartime suffering in the 1990s. But Serb officials remain sympathetic to their allies in ...

Six weeks after his Tisza movement upended Hungarian politics, Peter Magyar arrived in Poland on his first official foreign trip – a visit carefully designed to signal both democratic realignment and ...

The new leftist mayor of the Greek capital – whose seismic victory over the incumbent stunned observers – tells BIRN that dialogue, transparency and the reduction of inequalities will be the hallmarks ...

Women politicians such as ex-President Vjosa Osmani are frequent targets of AI-generated false content and online abuse as Kosovo heads to the polls.

As tensions grew in Yugoslavia, Serbia used the crimes committed by the fascist Ustasha forces of World War Two to whip up fear and hatred of Croats, preparing the public for war. Unpicking the ...

Probe into how photographs of Serbian activist taken at airport came to be published reveals that various state agencies had unregulated access to its video surveillance.

The new edition of BIRN’s Western Balkans Stability Monitor looks at election fever in the region. Some countries are heading towards elections; in others, parties are using possible polls as a PR ...

Veteran right-winger takes up PM's post for fourth time, promising a focus on development, security and completing what he called a 'half-finished' transition to democracy.

In North Macedonia, an enduring ethnic divide extends to conflicting interpretations of what actually happened during World War II.

Orban turned Hungary’s public service media into a propaganda machine after taking office in 2010. Now out of power, questions are being raised about what to do with the state media and the ...

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 ...