Both progressive Hungarian Jews and mainstream Jewish leaders are raising concerns about Trump’s appointment of Ben Landa to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary. With the departure last week of ...

Belgrade sets deadline for Russia’s Gazprom and Gazprom Neft to find a buyer for the mainly Russian-owned oil company NIS, which the US sanctioned over the Ukraine war. The NIS company logo in ...

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Kosovo’s acting chief state prosecutor was dismissed after media allegations about his supposed role in a probe that dismissed the 1999 Recak/Racak massacre as faked – claims he has rejected as ...

An internal report found Bulgarian authorities “likely” interfered in the efforts of activists to rescue three teenage Egyptian migrants on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria in late 2024. The ...

Fresh elections look inevitable after Glauk Konjufca, the Vetevendosje party’s second proposal for prime minister, failed to get a majority of votes in parliament on Wednesday. Glauk Konjufca of ...

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 ...

Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy.

A memo written in 1999 by journalist Michael Montgomery, who investigated alleged organ-trafficking by Kosovo guerrillas after the war, ultimately led to the establishment of a new war crimes court.

Unlike Wikipedia in other languages, the Croatian version refers to the WWII Jasenovac concentration camp as a “collection camp” - as well as playing down fascist crimes and ignoring right-wingers’ ...

A BIRN investigation finds evidence that systemic flaws in Romanian military procurement mean many local units are awarding big contracts to questionable companies, potentially compromising national ...

Hopes were raised by a EU-brokered agreement in 2021 aimed at standardising internet data roaming prices across six Western Balkan countries – but Kosovo’s troubled political situation has meant that ...