Without a new model of financial sustainability, the journalistic profession – a cornerstone of democracy – risks disappearing. Over more than 30 years as a journalist, I have gone through almost ...

The Interior Ministry is seeking to prosecute Mabel Matiz over his latest song, which it says is obscene and undermines public morality.

Some 86 percent of Europeans say heritage matters. Yet the reality on the ground presents a more complicated picture. From lotteries to preserve historic sites, to crowds flocking to European Heritage ...

The start to the new parliamentary session was overshadowed by more allegations of sexual abuse and systemic cover-up at Hungary’s state care facilities. The scandal risks undermining Fidesz’s ‘family ...

Pro-Russian parties dismiss reported dismantling of network allegedly trained in Serbia to subvert Sunday's election as a well-timed stunt. Moldovan police during the raid. Screen grab from a video ...

Decision to merely fine three members of the Telegram group Albkings for the repeated harassment of a BIRN journalist condemned as 'an extraordinarily lenient sentence that fails to meet legal or ...

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

Erion Veliaj’s dismissal as Tirana mayor appears to have terminated the career of a man once seen as a possible successor to Edi Rama.

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 ...

Europe must wake up to the threat of an emerging cocaine hub in West Africa, built by Western Balkan crime gangs. At first glance, the developing ports of West Africa and the criminal underworld of ...

A school history textbook for teenage pupils in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity continues to ignore the crimes of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic despite a court ruling in Sarajevo demanding it be ...

Motion filed by uneasy alliance of pro-EU and nationalist parties is unlikely to pass – but takes place against a background of growing protests on the streets. GERB leader Boyko Borissov in the ...