Bosnian state-level court rejected a request by the state prosecutor to restrict the movements of investigative reporter Natasa Miljanovic Zubac following her arrest.

Sinisa Spasic was given a 30-day detention by Pristina Basic Court after he was arrested on suspicion of raping and killing civilians during the Kosovo war.

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

For the first time in 15 years, Viktor Orban faces the real possibility of losing power as Peter Magyar’s opposition party leads in the polls. The outcome could reshape Hungary’s foreign ...

Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic has unleashed the full and frightening force of a state security apparatus moulded to answer only to him.

A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.

Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, and after months of deadlock, Kosovo MPs failed to elect a speaker and constitute a new parliament again, as two candidates from the biggest party did not ...

Bulgaria’s political chaos has created a media vacuum in which Kremlin-led narratives metastasize – and the solution is not a new EU media law but better enforcement of existing rules.

Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?