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Varna's opposition mayor Blagomir Kotsev – whose arrest in July on corruption charges sparked angry demonstrations – has been released after supporters raised the hefty bail sum in hours. Varna mayor ...

Tussle over concert permits between Zagreb’s left-green mayor and right-wing firebrand Marko Perkovic Thompson reflects unresolved ideological tensions in Croatia. This post is also available in this ...

Both progressive Hungarian Jews and mainstream Jewish leaders are raising concerns about Trump’s appointment of Ben Landa to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary.

The mighty skyscraper in Zagreb that once housed the largest publishing house in the Balkans looks set to be demolished after being gutted by a blaze. Croatia’s Minister of Construction, Branko Bacic, ...

Denied extradition requests, strained relations and historical revisionism: the Nord Stream saga, a thorn in Polish-German ties for over a decade, is far from over. On October 17, a Polish court ...

In the first of BIRN’s series about women’s wartime activism, Snezana Jakovljevic recalls how attending an anti-war protest in her hometown Krusevac after Serbian soldiers staged a mutiny was the ...

Edi Rama slated the court decision suspending Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku while she faces a graft probe – and threatened to take the matter to the Constitutional Court. Albanian PM Edi Rama ...

Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy. It began as a case of ‘guilt’ by association. When the ...

Bosnia might have become a byword for political paralysis, but there’s movement under the surface that could prove terminal for the High Representative, the international guarantor of the country’s 30 ...