Days before he is due to officially start the role, Albania’s next police chief-elect, Ilir Proda, has already had his mobile ...

Serbian director Vuk Rsumovic tells BIRN why his new film about undocumented Afghan refugees on the ‘Balkan Route’ to Western ...

Montenegro’s draft IT security law - a response to a massive cyber-attack on state institutions - raises questions about ...

Milovan Karakas fought with a Serb paramilitary unit during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. After being convicted of war crimes, he ...

A new BIRN report says a lack of funds and political will means that e-government services and open data provision in the ...

The Border Violence Monitoring Network decried the “persistent lack of transparency” surrounding the use of increasingly ...

Kosovo’s interior minister tells BIRN that discussions are continuing about the reopening of the symbolic main bridge in ...

North Macedonia has for years awarded top students international scholarships on condition they come back and work in the ...

Police have accused 25 opposition lawmakers of destruction of property following violent scenes at parliament. Albania ...

Reports that the EU plans to push ahead with Albania’s EU accession talks, independently of North Macedonia, puts renewed ...

The opposition Democratic Party of Socaliists won Sunday’s vote in Podgorica while the parties previously in power lost their ...

The fact Bosnians are still required to produce a printed Citizen Identification Protection System certificate to prove their ...