A day of mourning was declared after four members of the Italian contingent of peacekeepers died in a helicopter crash during a routine mission in northeastern Bosnia.

After an inconclusive first round to the Bulgarian presidential election, and amid record-low turnout, voters will choose between different views towards Europe and Russia in Sunday’s runoff.

A bill to bar politicians from running sports clubs is the first step in a wider overhaul of a system that channelled public money to political allies during Fidesz’s 16 years in power.

Europe’s green ambitions are caught between geopolitical crises, economic pressures and political pushback. Europe once led global efforts to protect biodiversity, but political pressure and industry ...

Speculation is mounting over who will run Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS after its director-general Manja Grcic acceded to Student List demands and resigned on Wednesday evening.

An exhibition of Italian photojournalist Mario Boccia’s work from wartime Sarajevo opens at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 2. The exhibition shows Sarajevans’ daily life in a ...

Following an attack on a gendarme guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia's caretaker Interior Minister Ivica Dacic raised the terror threat status to the highest level.

The chief prosecutor and deputy chief prosecutor of Peja/Pec, as well as 11 police officers, were suspended on Thursday after a recent femicide case demonstrated institutional failures.

On June 8, Monika Silva-Koniuszek was murdered in Ecuador. After obtaining a drive containing files the Polish activist had compiled, BIRN uncovered a network of companies linked to Albanian gangs ...

Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat to Student List in major parliamentary elections on Sunday. The result brings an end to 14 years of rule by Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party.

An analysis of Bosnian court verdicts in cases of wartime sexual violence shows deep inconsistencies in sentencing, a tendency to give more weight to mitigating circumstances, and a failure to ...