Serbian leader voices dismay and Hungary mulls legal action after EU energy ministers voted to phase out all Russian gas imports from 2028. Construction work on the ‘Bulgaria and Serbia’ (IBS) gas ...

The appointment of Ana Trisic Babic as acting president until November's election follows Milorad Dodik’s removal from office after he was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on ...

A protest planned for Friday in Tirana – against the Hague war crimes court's trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci – has reignited feuding between Albania's premier Edi Rama and the biggest ...

Robert Fico’s coalition fell short on paper – until opposition lawmakers crossed the aisle, reshaping both Slovakia’s constitution from November 1 as well as the political map.

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Slavko Simic of the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party pleaded not guilty to involvement in violent attacks with stun grenades and bricks on journalists covering protests by Serbs in north Kosovo in ...

Raids on four Belgrade call centres in 2023 disrupted a multinational fraud operation that duped an estimated 70,000 people worldwide out of some 250 million euros, but the ringleaders were never ...

Hundreds of protestors marched to Hatvanpuszta, a vast estate tied to the family of Hungary’s prime minister and seen by many as a symbol of corruption in Hungary. The so-called ‘safari tour’ was ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

In a tense parliament session, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gave the floor to the AI entity he has appointed as artificial intelligence minister, sparking an angry backlash from opposition MPs.