The Central Election Commission has again refused to accredit the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party for parliamentary elections, triggering harsh reactions from Western diplomats. Srpska Lista’s ...

Efforts to provide teachers and books in the Roma language culminated last year with the opening of a library of Roma-language books in Prizren – and interest in it has grown ever since. Arzu Cukici ...

The car parts industry has become crucial to the North Macedonia economy, but low wages are keeping some would-be workers away. Kosta Atanasov was on the verge of quitting his native North Macedonia ...

Varna's opposition mayor Blagomir Kotsev – whose arrest in July on corruption charges sparked angry demonstrations – has been released after supporters raised the hefty bail sum in hours. Varna mayor ...

As the country’s strongest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, is forced into opposition, some fear it may retaliate by stoking ethnic tensions and blocking institutions. For the first time ...

As the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, a new book showcases posters from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, explaining how graphic design was used for resistance, ...

A recent mass shooting at a school in Belgrade had a widespread impact online in the Balkans, sparking a series of copycat threats, misleading articles, fake video footage and insensitive reports in ...

Former communist countries in Southeast Europe face catastrophic depopulation, with far-reaching social and political consequences. Young people are leaving. Fertility rates have collapsed. Societies ...

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

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 ...

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...

BIRN reveals the alarming impact of emigration on Kosovo’s health system — exacerbated by an unregulated private industry churning out medical staff for export to Germany. Arife Berisha, 65, has her ...