Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski claims deal with UK will kickstart 'investment revolution' in North Macedonia – but some critics insist it may involve taking asylum-seekers from the UK in return.

Nicusor Dan celebrates victory in Bucharest, 19 May 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT. Romanians elected a centrist politician, Nicusor Dan as their president on Sunday, marking a significant ...

Police arrested 25 alleged members of a nationalist, far-right youth group in Thessaloniki in northern Greece for robbery and violent crimes.

Lida Hujic, a popular youth presenter during the golden era of Radio Television Sarajevo in the late 1980s, recalls the rebellious past of a public broadcaster which today, as BHRT, faces an ...

As Donald Trump Jr tours South-East and Central Europe to promote his business – and partnerships with US companies – some Balkan politicians are using his visit to score points of their own.

Press freedom has continued a downward slide in most Balkan countries according to the latest report by Reporters Without Borders – although Albania, Montenegro and Serbia have bucked the trend.

Illustration: BIRN/Igor Vujcic. Biometric surveillance and facial recognition technologies are expanding rapidly across the Balkans, raising serious privacy and ethical concerns, particularly in ...

In Croatia, Catholic bishops struggled with many of the late Pope’s ideas, especially on migration, the country’s controversial World War II history, and the alleged miraculous visions at ...