BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace ...

The Palace of Justice in Belgrade, where some of the SLAPP cases have been heard. Photo: BIRN. Sued and Sued Again: Film Shows How Lawsuits Target Dissent in Serbia Veran Matic Belgrade BIRN June ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda (L) and President-elect Karol Nawrocki (R) meet at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, 03 June 2025. EPA-EFE/Pawel Supernak Nawrocki’s Victory May Prove ...

Serbia sent record amounts of arms to Israel last year. But President Aleksandar Vucic said that since Israel attacked Iran, such exports have been stopped.

Whatever information Thanasis Koukakis had been sharing with his readers, it was not quite enough. Someone wanted more. Twice in the space of two years, the financial journalist’s phone calls ...

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.

North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning and advised its citizens in Israel and Iran to follow national emergency portals there and follow the instructions of these countries ...

Nuclear vision: A key question will be whether the energy crisis will provide enough momentum to finally restart nuclear projects that have been stalled for decades. Czechia is due to select the ...

As well as the large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology in urban areas, the authorities have sought to monitor opponents, activists and journalists, says ...

A court in North Macedonia issued life sentences to four defendants for the killing of a teenage girl and a retired barber who were kidnapped in an attempt to secure a ransom in 2023.

The decision to use the former Spac labour camp to shoot a film – and repaint some of the buildings – has enraged former inmates and activists who say the works threaten to alter history.

Omladinski Program staff Darko Skert, Neven Andelic, Marko Milovic and Senad Zaimovic. Photo by Milomir Kovacevic, courtesy of Lida Hujic. Made in Sarajevo: When Bosnia’s Public Broadcaster was ...