The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian ...

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.

Fearing he could lose the 2026 general election, the Hungarian PM is deploying ever harsher means to stay in power. A proposed bill foresees open censorship disguised as a ‘fight against foreign ...

Millions of euros in EU subsidies were paid out to Greeks who fraudulently declared pastureland, but while state complicity is clear, the government looks unlikely to fall.

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...

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 ...

Kosovo should take a leaf out of Montenegro’s book and work with the United States on cyber defence and drone technologies.

In the run-up to the current referendum, which was launched on March 15, Orban gave interviews on state-controlled media saying that there is nothing more important than preventing Ukraine’s EU ...

This week’s Balkan Insight Premium stories reflect the region’s ongoing push-and-pull between hopes of peace and the bitter weight of history.

We Continue the Change is facing unprecedented challenges as key figures are targeted by institutions – potentially leaving pro-Russian nationalists as the only ‘opposition’ left in Bulgaria.

Thirty years after NATO intervention helped end the Bosnian war, it’s time for a ‘Trump Plan’ to tackle the unworkable agreement that has left Bosnia and Herzegovina paralyzed.