Locals in South Bohemia fear private developers are trying to strong-arm them into hosting a massive new warehouse of US retail and tech giant Amazon. “Some people call me naïve, but I believe we have ...

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Up for release from prison in September, Ilias Kasidiaris of the now defunct Golden Dawn party has been trying to cast himself as a political martyr, with an eye on elections early next year.

The countries of the Balkans are coming to understand just how much Donald Trump enjoys transactional displays of admiration.

Court papers show how marijuana flowed across the North Macedonia-Serbia border declared as pillows, cakes and duvets.

Ukraine is about to try Davor Savicic in absentia – the first Bosnian national to be charged with war crimes allegedly committed while fighting with Russian forces in 2022. In an interview with BIRN, ...

Activists in Kosovo are installing countdown timers counting off the days until the September 16 verdict in the crimes against humanity trial of former president Hashim Thaci at The Hague. Catch up on ...

Sixty-five-years-old, Sina faced down the poverty that drove so many from the Dibra region of northern Albania in the decades following the collapse of communism, only to now face a new threat in the ...

Ruling Socialist Party uses its majority in parliament to vote down a prosecution request to lift former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku's immunity, allowing for her arrest. Belinda Balluku, ...

For the rest of that decade, it was the local League of Communists that organised commemorative events at the site. Then, in 1991, as Bosnia teetered on the brink of war, the 50th anniversary of the ...

Late last year, responding to US and EU pressure, the Montenegrin government said it would require telecoms providers to phase out Chinese equipment. It has yet to do so, BIRN can reveal. Montenegro ...

The flow of people and goods through the Accursed Mountains was disrupted by the turbulence of the 1990s and has yet to be fully restored. Once a year, Mehdi Berisha travels from Kosovo to Montenegro ...