A deeply polarised and politically volatile electorate will head to the polls on Sunday to choose the next mayor of Bucharest - a vote widely seen as a barometer for the country’s overall political ...

The Central Election Commission has again refused to accredit the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party for parliamentary elections, triggering harsh reactions from Western diplomats. Srpska Lista’s ...

Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a BIRN ...

Varna's opposition mayor Blagomir Kotsev – whose arrest in July on corruption charges sparked angry demonstrations – has been released after supporters raised the hefty bail sum in hours. Varna mayor ...

Tussle over concert permits between Zagreb’s left-green mayor and right-wing firebrand Marko Perkovic Thompson reflects unresolved ideological tensions in Croatia. This post is also available in this ...

Both progressive Hungarian Jews and mainstream Jewish leaders are raising concerns about Trump’s appointment of Ben Landa to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary. With the departure last week of ...

Denied extradition requests, strained relations and historical revisionism: the Nord Stream saga, a thorn in Polish-German ties for over a decade, is far from over. On October 17, a Polish court ...

Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy. It began as a case of ‘guilt’ by association. When the ...

Bosnia might have become a byword for political paralysis, but there’s movement under the surface that could prove terminal for the High Representative, the international guarantor of the country’s 30 ...

Decades after the guns fell silent, the Dayton peace deal still defines everyday life for ordinary people in Bosnia and Herzegovina – although sometimes contemporary political tensions revive fearful ...

The special anti-corruption court suspended Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, who is under investigation for violating tender procedures, and barred her from travelling abroad, a source told BIRN ...

Kosovo’s acting chief state prosecutor was dismissed after media allegations about his supposed role in a probe that dismissed the 1999 Recak/Racak massacre as faked – claims he has rejected as ...