Opposition MPs hurled bottles and clashed with guards as the new ruling party-backed Ombudsman took his oath amid heightened tensions sparked by high-level graft cases. Albanian opposition MPs protest ...

President Vucic said Kushner’s withdrawal from Belgrade project was a massive blow – and added that opponents of the project would ‘be held accountable’ for deliberately undermining Serbia. People ...

Indictment accuses Culture Minister and others of unlawfully removing cultural heritage status from the old military HQ in Belgrade, reportedly to allow a company linked to Jared Kushner to redevelop ...

MPs meet members of an initiative that has collected 1.2 million signtaures, including 65,000 from Croatia, demanding safe and accsssible abortion rights for all women in the EU. Members of the My ...

Elsewhere, legislative chaos as Slovak government rams through laws and president wields veto; yet another scandal in Hungary exposes government’s hollow ‘child-friendly’ narrative; and Poland invited ...

The draft bill – twice amended but still widely criticised – was approved by all 78 MPs from the coalition after the ruling parties abruptly curtailed a debate that had been dominated by the ...

Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a BIRN ...

In the second of her monthly despatches from the United States capital, Jovana Djurovic looks at the shifting sands of US policy towards the Balkans - the Bosnian Serbs in particular. Greetings from ...

Intrusive, outdated and sometimes harmful procedures during childbirth remain routine in Croatian hospitals, where standards of care vary wildly and veer from WHO recommendations. Marija was under no ...

Trade Minister Stasa Kosarac sent High Representative Christian Schmidt an SS helmet along with a letter calling him the 'embodiment of evil', escalating the Serb entity’s confrontation with Bosnia's ...

As Albania begins its last cluster of topics in its EU accession talks in Brussels – only one year after starting negotiations – Prime Minister Edi Rama expresses pride in his country's achievement.