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With the inauguration of Kosovo’s new parliament deadlocked for a month, President Vjosa Osmani brought political parties together to seek a solution, but no agreement was reached. Democratic ...

The 55-year-old mayor of Bucharest is running on a platform of honesty, integrity and pro-Western stability as Romanians prepare for the second round of potentially the most consequential presidential ...

Experts say the proposed law would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and the media, stifling criticism ahead of the 2026 general election. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (C) speaks at the ...

Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha gestures casts his ballot in Tirana, 11 May 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA. As the scale of the Socialist Party’s parliamentary election victory became ...

In parallel with worsening media freedoms and women rights in Turkey, online abuse of female reporters is rising, fuelled by a climate of impunity.

NATO accession was framed in Montenegro and North Macedonia in terms of economic benefit, not just security – but the benefit has yet to be felt.

BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace. In March this year, the air traffic control ...

The Dalmatian coast is particularly affected by the overexploitation of water and energy, with peak consumption exceeding normal summer demand by 300 per cent. Just over 80 per cent of drinking ...

Antonio Costa inspects an honour guard in Podgorica, Montenegro, 14 May 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC. Speaking in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica on Wednesday, European Council president ...