Bulgarian leaders and German company hail deal to build plant manufacturing gunpowder and artillery shells for NATO and EU countries. A worker in the state-owned armament enterprise VMZ-Sopot in ...

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. The decision by the National ...

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In response to a long hunger strike in front of the tomb by the father of a Tempi train crash victim, parliament approved a law assigning the monument's care to the Defence Ministry – and limiting ...

The party led by the oligarch Delyan Peevski has assured Boyko Borissov's shaky GERB-led coalition government of its continued backing, raising more questions about his increasing influence. GERB ...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina presented a database of children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war as well as a documentary about the parents and relatives who are still looking for them. This post ...

The woman, a 30-year-old beautician, spoke to BIRN by phone from her home in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Asking not to be named, the woman said she had taken a job in a tourist resort in Orikum, ...

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. Only around a quarter of the ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. A police report seen by BIRN shows that 197 reports of crimes and 186 civil ...

The courtroom killing of a judge in Tirana has prompted calls from Albanian judges and prosecutors for authorities to get serious about their ‘almost non-existent’ security.

Rights groups condemned decision to bury former General Nebojsa Pavkovic, who was convicted of war crimes against Kosovo Albanians, in an area reserved for 'meritorious citizens' – and with military ...

Eight people were arrested in Romania and Poland over an alleged plot to send exploding parcels by post to Ukraine, with authorities claiming Russian involvement. Deportations of unsheltered EU ...