Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

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’.

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.

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

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.

Recent remarks from Greece’s prime minister suggest the government is ready to embrace nuclear power, amid signs of a shift in the public mood.

It remains unclear why war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia have never investigated Bosnian Croat lawmaker Dragan Konta, despite a 2017 court ruling identifying him as the military police commander at ...

For a fifth night in a row, protests in Serbia were marked by clashes between demonstrators and police – with each side accusing the other of provoking conflict.

The owners of the biggest broadcasters in Albania have all benefitted from ‘strategic investor’ status granted by the government for other projects, raising doubts about editorial independence.

On October 8, 2024, a Bulgarian company contacted a US arms firm called Regulus Global with an offer to supply 122,000 tons of Chinese TNT explosives, worth almost a billion dollars.