Three former Serb fighters have again been convicted over the abduction of 20 passengers from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia in 1993 – who were later killed. The Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday ...

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.

After Albania’s government appointed an AI-generated digital assistant as a ‘minister’, a group of information technology experts have proposed an AI ‘candidate’ for the upcoming Tirana mayoral ...

Winner of the Czech election Andrej Babis has revealed the outlines of a new government, but he probably won’t be appointed as prime minister before next month. Leader of the ANO movement Andrej Babis ...

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 ...

Three years after hackers targeted Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state parliament, it remains the only country in Europe without a Computer Emergency Response Team because of administrative obstacles and ...

A wild river given protection as a ‘national park’ in 2023 still faces serious threats to its biodiversity from pollution – and Albania’s government is doing little to stop it. Only a few metres ...

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

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 ...

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