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 Bosnian state court confirmed the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a post-war Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, clearing him of taking part in wartime attacks that killed several ...

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 ...

The former Kosovo president’s defence team hopes that supportive statements from high-profile US figures like James Rubin and Wesley Clark will carry serious weight as his war crimes verdict ...

MTV is shutting down its European music video channels, which were once symbols of freedom for many young people in the Balkans and the former Eastern Bloc. Lida Hujic had a front-row seat when the ...

After a long crisis, new elections may provide a government at last, but are unlikely to resolve the underlying challenges facing Kosovo – or ease the political disillusionment that has grown within ...

Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes ...

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

Kosovo authorities opened a new river bridge in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, a move seen by Serbia as a political stunt that "undermines peace". The new bridge for vehicles connecting ...