In the first week of Hashim Thaci's trial for obstruction of justice, the prosecution alleged at the Hague court that the former Kosovo president attempted to influence witnesses during his ...

The upcoming verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his co-accused will have enormous consequences for the defendants themselves, for the court, for Kosovo and for ...

Athens appeal court upholds guilty verdicts for members of prescribed extremist party, five-and-a-half years after the first-instance ruling. Ioannis Lagos, member of the leadership of Golden Dawn, at ...

In the fifth instalment of BIRN’s series about war-displaced people’s continuing links to the Balkans, Sandra Ivanov tells how her family’s emigration to New Zealand forged a commitment to ...

BIRN has identified a growing network of increasingly sophisticated and intrusive surveillance technology in Serbia, in schools, hospitals, on the roads and in the air, all without an adequate ...

Court orders detention for bank owner Aleksandar Djukanovic, brother of the country's former president, after police seized firearms, ammunition and ballistic vests at his family home. Police van ...

Some Balkan countries are planning to evacuate stranded citizens from the conflict zone around Iran, others have already managed to fly people out - although some have only issued security warnings.

A Chinese consortium is to construct the second section of Montenegro's Bar-Boljare highway – whose first stretch was widely derided for leading 'from nothing to nowhere'. Entrance to the first ...

After months of defending his deputy and Minister of Infrastructure, Belinda Balluku, who faces allegations of manipulating public tenders, Edi Rama finally dismissed her on Thursday night. Albania’s ...

‘Girlhood at War’ by Vjosa Musliu is an account of coming of age during the 1998-99 Kosovo war – and how that has shaped her ideas about racial discrimination and the feeling of being ‘unwanted’. This ...

Experts doubt the effect of Serbia’s spending on US lobbyists to burnish the country’s image in the eyes of Donald Trump. Serbia has spent $3.2 million on Washington lobbyists since July 2023, almost ...

Serbian lawyers stopped work for three days, but without a general strike in the judiciary, experts say only EU pressure can force the government to retract controversial legal amendments deemed “a ...