Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas’ resignation from the Republican People’s Party has worsened the embattled opposition’s plight ahead of the next elections – potentially benefitting Turkey’s authoritarian ...

With midterms approaching and polls looking bad, the US administration seems to be mulling Balkan-style election giveaways – while also giving democratic backsliders and war crimes deniers a free pass ...

MPs unite across party lines to back statement expressing unhappiness over Hague verdict convicting four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders and urging state institutions to take action.

After Serbia's president pardons 12 activists accused of plotting to subvert the state, one of them tells BIRN it only proves the whole case was 'fabricated from the beginning' for political purposes.

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Victoria Belous tells BIRN that a combination of EU funds and bold reforms will turn her post-Soviet republic into a modern European state – even if rising prices test people’s pain threshold.

Bosnia’s once mighty SDA party has failed to reform internally, meaning any potential return to power will not reflect widespread enthusiasm for its policies but rather deep voter disappointment with ...

Predictable criticisms of the Hague verdict convicting four Kosovo Liberation Army leaders of war crimes ignore the question at the trial’s heart – who the victims were, and what compensation they ...

Court bans Republika Srpska from paying international lobbying firms to promote the entity’s independence from the Bosnian state.

Tech concerns mount over elections in Serbia, spy chief’s arrest tests Albania’s NATO ties, protests over court verdicts continue in Kosovo and North Macedonia mulls impact of dangerous virus, our ...

Much-anticipated election debate sees rare direct televised face-off between senior ruling party official and candidate from opposition Student List.

Elsewhere, Polish foreign minister confronts Russian counterpart at UN as tensions with Kremlin rise; Hungary allowed to re-enter EU’s Erasmus+ program; Slovakia succeeds in getting Russian ...