A wild river given protection as a ‘national park’ in 2023 still faces serious threats to its biodiversity from pollution – and Albania’s government is doing little to stop it. Only a few metres ...

The shocking killing of judge Astrit Kalaja on Monday inside a Tirana court has led to serious questions over levels of security in the country’s institutions. Photo illustration: EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA ...

Slavko Simic of the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party pleaded not guilty to involvement in violent attacks with stun grenades and bricks on journalists covering protests by Serbs in north Kosovo in ...

After Albania’s government appointed an AI-generated digital assistant as a ‘minister’, a group of information technology experts have proposed an AI ‘candidate’ for the upcoming Tirana mayoral ...

The EU issued a warning to Romania to stop using a pesticide containing neonicotinoids, which are toxic to pollinating insects, after Bucharest sought to aid its cereal crop and sunflower farmers by ...

Winner of the Czech election Andrej Babis has revealed the outlines of a new government, but he probably won’t be appointed as prime minister before next month. Leader of the ANO movement Andrej Babis ...

Robert Fico’s coalition fell short on paper – until opposition lawmakers crossed the aisle, reshaping both Slovakia’s constitution from November 1 as well as the political map.

As head of Albania’s special anti-graft and organised crime prosecution, Altin Dumani proved no one is ‘untouchable’ anymore. Experts say he set a high bar for his successor.

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

Raids on four Belgrade call centres in 2023 disrupted a multinational fraud operation that duped an estimated 70,000 people worldwide out of some 250 million euros, but the ringleaders were never ...

“A few weeks before the 2024 election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina started, my phone rang – it was a top-ranking person in the city administration and the ruling party. This person had never ...