Acting President Iliana Iotova and Prime Minister Rumen Radev look primed to solidify the ruling party Progressive Bulgaria’s grip on power amid declining public trust, security criticisms and low ...

Poor judicial cooperation between Montenegro and Croatia leave crimes at two wartime Yugoslav detention centres unresolved – and could threaten Montenegro's EU accession progress.

At the opening of the Berlin Process summit in Montenegro on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Montenegro could join the EU by 2028, and he urged regional cooperation.

After deploying his heavy machinery to protect Serbia’s presidency building from anti-government protesters, Mile Samardzija secured a 1.1 million-euro contract with a company part-owned by the state.

Romania's state arms industry is supposed to help defend NATO's eastern flank. Instead, politically connected and corrupt managers, wasted funds, and poor security have left several of its factories ...

While a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 13 people to a combined total of more than 180 years in prison for the killing of Bosniak civilians in two villages during the 1992-95 war, the ...

Four days before parliamentary elections, Serbian police arrested at least seven individuals suspected of planning violent actions on election day and plotting to ‘overthrow the state’.

A wave of student protests have swept Albania over the last week and escalated into clashes with police. BIRN spoke with some of the protesters to hear what brought them into the streets.

Russia remains ready to aid its Balkan allies in their electoral endeavours and sabotage EU and NATO membership prospects, as Vladimir Putin’s recent efforts to boost Milorad Dodik and Aleksandar ...

The prime minister says he doesn’t believe in Nato solidarity, even as Slovakia relies on its partners for military protection and continues its alliance commitments. So why is he using such damaging ...

BIRN has confirmed that at least three associates of US President Donald Trump attended a campaign rally for Milorad Dodik’s Serb nationalist SNSD party, raising questions of possible violations of ...

The far-right Homeland Movement party accused media of conducting a “witch-hunt” against a Hajduk Split football fan group that targeted journalists who reported on its members’ pro-Nazi and ...