The Western military alliance’s new national spending benchmark on defence and security may cause problems for smaller and poorer NATO member states in the Balkans who cannot afford 5 per cent ...

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

An inability to plan for the future is driving many young, educated Albanians to leave their homeland; experts say the government will have to address the trend sooner or later.

Over 70 people were arrested after protesters clashed with police in the wake of a student-led demonstration for snap elections that brought tens of thousands onto the streets of Belgrade.

From politics to the media business, high expectations often go hand-in-hand with disappointments big and small, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023.

In October 2024, a shipment of containers with suspected hazardous waste was returned to Albania. But prosecutors haven't yet managed to analyse their contents because they say they're unable to ...

Former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is stepping away from his We Continue the Change party amid a brewing corruption scandal.

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

Ilie Bolojan is entrsuted with forming a stable government that can address Romania’s severe budget deficit amid deep divisions over fiscal policy.

National Theatre staff voice 'shock and concern' over government decision to make Dragoslav Bokan, a former paramilitary unit leader, president of the Board of Directors.

Joining the TWiCE team is Edit Inotai, BIRN’s Budapest correspondent, who discusses the expected results of a “national consultation” held in Hungary on whether Ukraine should be allowed to ...