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Nearly a year after Prime Minister Edi Rama introduced an AI chatbot as a ‘virtual minister’ in his cabinet to tackle corruption, has the technology been a success?

North Macedonia’s prosecution indicted former First Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi and seven other people for alleged abuse of office over the purchase of video lottery terminals, which cost the State Lottery 8.2 million euros.

Journalist Vasko Popetrevski says the Ohrid Agreement stopped the bloodshed in 2001 – but the deep divisions in society that produced the conflict have not been completely reconciled.

Record low water levels in the River Danube force temporary shutdown of Romania’s last operating nuclear reactor, obliging the country to import more electricity.

Kosovo’s MPs have failed for weeks to elect new leadership, creating a fresh institutional logjam that could trigger a fourth election in less than two years.

The government is preparing to bring back online sports betting, seven years after a widespread gambling clampdown. But mental health experts warn that Albania is ill-equipped to deal with a rise in gambling addiction.

Romania’s pro-European parties are failing to compromise over reforms needed to secure EU funds, while political instability and economic struggles are strengthening the challenge from the far right.

Kosovo police inspectorate are investigating allegations that officers beat up a Serb man and tied him to a tree while searching his home for weapons.

Ruling VMRO DPMNE gets lion's share of state funding for country's parties, while main opposition Social Democrats see funding fall, under system that rewards election performance.

Britain’s policies on the Balkans aren’t going to change under its new prime minister – and what most intrigues the UK media about the region this summer is the newly-revealed secrets of the Danube mud.

Pristina is urging the European Union to put pressure on Belgrade to allow cross-border electricity transmission from Serbia to Kosovo, so cheaper imports can ease its energy crisis.

MPs back bill offering conditional pardon to members of Kurdish armed group – which now goes to National Security Council for approval.

In the Czech Republic there is a shortage of up to 3,000 places in shelters for victims of domestic violence. One alternative is renting on the open market, but this is expensive and single mothers can face discrimination in such situations.

Tourism and business sectors prepare for a possible decline in income from Russian and Turkish visitors as EU accession frontrunner Montenegro adopts the bloc's policies on visas.

As NATO-led KFOR mission starts winding down presence on bridge in divided Mitrovica, Kosovo's main Serb party warns of potential problems at 'site of serious conflicts'.

The Ukrainian president’s first official visit to Serbia sends a political signal to Moscow and Brussels. But there is little evidence that Belgrade is preparing to abandon its long-running balancing act or impose sanctions on Russia.

School pupils and students were tasked with tracking down relatives of 10 Greek prisoners of the Nazis and returning the personal belongings taken from them. Their efforts helped tell the stories of those who were 'turned into numbers' by World War II.

Experts say the government's move to ditch a controversial concession contract to build Vlora International Airport, at significant cost to taxpayers, highlights structural weaknesses in Albania’s public-private partnership framework.

A Serbian national allegedly linked to Serbian intelligence – arrested recently while on holiday in Croatia – is accused of hacking into several major state institutions and agencies.

Milorad Pupovac said glorification of Croatia's WWII fascist state in Knin during anniversary celebrations of 'Operation Storm' was an attack on democracy and in no way patriotic.

The region is in the midst of a summer heatwave – and our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week suggests that upcoming elections may keep its political temperature elevated for some time too.

Various libertarians and Gen Z students have made use of the confused state of the Croatia-Serbia river border to proclaim independent mini-states – although police and governments insist they have no legal basis.

The mass incursion into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta showed would-be EU members how the European bloc responds to a genuine shock to its self-proclaimed values of ‘solidarity’.

Twenty members of Serbian forces indicted for war crimes in Gjakova/Djakovica in 1999 include the Kosovo Serb ‘kingpin’ Milan Radoicic, BIRN has learned.

Kosovo’s ruling Vetevendosje party postpones vote on new speaker – arguing that more time is needed for coalition talks.