The minimum age requirement to open a TikTok account has done nothing to stop thousands of children in the Balkans under the age of 13 from accessing the short-form video...
The mayor of the Montenegrin town of Pljevlja, Igor Golubovic, resigned amid a controversy over his alleged opposition to removing graffiti celebrating Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic in his...
Civil rights organisations welcomed Zagreb city council’s decision to add the Zec family, a Serb couple and their daughter killed by Croatian police during the war, to a register of...
A man who left his home behind in Hrtkovci in Serbia in 1992 after Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj stirred up anti-Croat fervour in the village is now trying...
Cooperating with international agencies such as Europol is crucial if North Macedonia and the rest of the Western Balkans are to win the fight against terrorism and extremism.
The Kosovo Judicial Council has suspended a judge in Kacanik after BIRN filmed him illegally negotiating with the parties outside court.
The deputy leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army Veterans’ Organisation, Nasim Haradinaj, told his trial in The Hague that there were no new revelations in leaked documents from war crimes...
Based on the Pandora Papers leaks, Albanian prosecutors are to probe 3.6 million euros that the company that built the electricity interconnection line to Kosovo paid to a small UAE-baed...
Serbia’s Interior Ministry has launched a disciplinary procedure after policemen in the town of Priboj were filmed celebrating to a song that glorifies the Srebrenica genocide and other wartime crimes.
The Albanian authorities’ efforts to locate the graves of thousands people killed by the country’s former Communist dictatorship have stalled, causing disillusionment and anger among the families of the disappeared.
In focussing on the threat from religious extremism and Islamic radicalisation, North Macedonia risks underestimating the dangers of the far-right.
BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy.