A Turkish lawyer who fled to Greece in 2020 has been on hunger strike for 29 days now, protesting against Greece's decision to cancel his political asylum status.

Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic.

Joining the TWiCE team this week is Claudia Ciobanu, BIRN’s Warsaw correspondent, who looks ahead to the second round of Poland’s presidential election on June 1, which will see Warsaw Mayor ...

National leaders and international actors such as the European Union are facing challenging political times across the region, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

Three decades ago, two-year-old Sandro was among 71 people who were killed when a shell fired from Bosnian Serb Army positions hit a youth gathering in the city of Tuzla. His mother still thinks ...

Court reduces Caslav Jolic's sentence from eight years to five-and-a-half years after a retrial for war crimes against Kosovo Albanian civilians in the Istog/Istok area in 1998.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas at a press conference in Pristina, Kosovo, May 22, 2025. Photo: BIRN The European Union High Representative for Foreign ...

Euro banknotes. Photo: Pexels Serbia has joined the Single Euro Payments Area, SEPA, following a positive decision by the European Payments Council, EPC. A European Commission press release ...