According to media reports, most of the protesters who were arrested were released later, although some were accused of traffic misdemeanours. Student protest organisers meanwhile called for a ...

Protest against threats to media freedom in Zagreb, Croatia, March 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT. 20 Years On, New Threats Worsen Outlook for Free Media in Balkans Sinisa Jakov Marusic Skopje ...

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.

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.

Kosovo MPs failed for the 39th time to constitute a new parliament on Sunday, after a Constitutional Court ruling on June 26 obliged MPs to form the parliament within 30 days. A meeting with ...

Bulgaria opposition leader Kiril Petkov on Wednesday unexpectedly announced his resignation from the We Continue the Change party and from parliament.

Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023.

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 ...

Freedom of Information laws in the six Western Balkan countries may look robust, but public institutions all too often find ways to obstruct transparency, a new BIRN report has found.

Mustafa Stovrag lost his appeal against his three-year jail sentence for beating up Bosnian Serb soldiers who were being held as prisoners of war in Gorazde in 1993.

UNA’s Undoing: The Rise and Fall of Bosnia’s ‘Dodik TV’ Selma Ucanbarlic Sarajevo BIRN June 23, 202510:14 Selma Ucanbarlic Sarajevo BIRN June 23, 202510:14 ...

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.