Across south-east Europe last month, BIRN’s digital rights monitors documented how AI is being used for protest surveillance, election manipulation, enabling digital sexual abuse and committing ...

As BIRN celebrates two decades of work, there never seems to be a dull moment in the region, as our selection of Premium stories this week shows.

Student-led protesters calling for snap elections continues to block roads in various towns and cities as they maintained their campaign against a government they accuse of corruption and brutality.

When BIRN was founded two decades ago, media freedom in the Balkans faced serious challenges, but there was hope; now, the prospects are even bleaker.

Investigative journalists, rights campaigners, political analysts, justice experts and representatives of international NGOs explain why the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network plays such an ...

Investigative journalists, rights campaigners, political analysts, justice experts and representatives of international NGOs explain why the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network plays such an ...

From documentaries exposing war criminals to TV shows setting national political agendas, BIRN has produced hundreds of hours of television programmes and documentaries guided by the same ...

In Serbia and Bosnia, sports wagers and slot machines have ensnared thousands of people in a dangerous cycle of gambling addiction – destroying lives and families.

Presidential pardon exempts four ruling party supporters accused of attacking student protesters in Novi Sad in January from criminal prosecution.

Police deny violating the legal autonomy of universities as videos show them detaining protesting students at the entrances to two university faculties in Belgrade.

Large fire on Greek island prompts residents and tourists to evacuate the area, as authorities report a ‘difficult situation’.