The election was closely watched given that more than a quarter of all voters in Montenegro are eligible to vote in Podgorica ...

In Croatia, thousands of Yugoslav-era monuments to the WWII anti-fascist struggle have been destroyed, looted and left to rot. The loss to collective memory, and to the country’s architectural and ...

Local communities in Bosnia and Serbia accuse authorities of working closely with mining giants to exploit natural resources and ‘critical minerals’ like lithium that are coveted by EU states, ...

Hungary’s double standards regarding the defence of sovereignty have reached a surreal point. The question is whether the PM ...

Vlade Sladoje’s election campaign poster. Photo: Vlade Sladoje/Facebook. The Central Election Commission said on Friday that it has fined Vlade Sladoje, the candidate for mayor of the town of ...

An election poster for Revival leader Kostadin Kostadinov in Sofia, June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV. Revival, Bulgaria’s leading pro-Russian far-right party, could take second place in ...

Albania’s police last year learned with dismay that they will no longer be compensated in cash for working overtime but with food coupons. Now many of them complain of unofficial pressure to ...

Ministry asks Ombudsman to lead investigation into death at a police station of a migrant whose family say was found dead with bruises all over his body. Police vehicles. Athens, Greece.

Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week includes a proposed ‘Vatican-style’ micro-state for the Bektashi community in Albania, harrowing accounts of Roma forced to dig graves ...