The Central Election Commission has again refused to accredit the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party for parliamentary elections, triggering harsh reactions from Western diplomats. Srpska Lista’s ...

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 ...

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. With the departure last week of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Bosnian Serbs vote on Sunday for a successor to Milorad Dodik, ending a two-week campaign marked by divisive rhetoric, including hate-filled statements by Dodik targeting Bosniaks. Milorad Dodik at ...

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 ...

Decades after the guns fell silent, the Dayton peace deal still defines everyday life for ordinary people in Bosnia and Herzegovina – although sometimes contemporary political tensions revive fearful ...

The special anti-corruption court suspended Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, who is under investigation for violating tender procedures, and barred her from travelling abroad, a source told BIRN ...