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For the first time in 15 years, Viktor Orban faces the real possibility of losing power as Peter Magyar’s opposition party leads in the polls. The outcome could reshape Hungary’s foreign ...
A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.
The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.
Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.
France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?
Amid the summer heat, political developments in the region are also simmering, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.
After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.
The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...
Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.
Five years after COVID-19 prompted a surge in demand for deliveries, are conditions any better for the couriers who do this tough job in all weathers? Delivery riders in Germany have been striking ...
The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...
Media organisations say Albanian police action, surrounding the News 24 TV station building and seizing journalists' computers amid a property dispute with a government ministry, is 'heavy-handed ...