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In her latest despatch from Washington, Jovana Djurovic dissects official State Department policy on the Balkans.

Unpicking the origins of two luxury SUVs used in a fatal 2023 attack by Serb gunmen in Kosovo, BIRN uncovers a web of companies cornering the Serbian market in energy infrastructure and transport with the help of millions of euros in public funds.

Police on Tuesday say they have dismantled the crime gang that defrauded the Greek state and Brussels by falsely claiming EU agricultural subsidies.

‘The Train – On the Border Between Terror and Freedom’ sheds light on mass expulsions during the 1999 war, bringing together testimonies of displacement and survival from survivors.

The new edition of BIRN’s Western Balkans Stability Monitor looks at election fever in the region. Some countries are heading towards elections; in others, parties are using possible polls as a PR tool.

Election season is coming early to Greece with the unveiling of two new parties, but can anyone end the dominance of the conservative New Democracy party come 2027?

Veteran right-winger takes up PM's post for fourth time, promising a focus on development, security and completing what he called a 'half-finished' transition to democracy.

Prosecutors said that a body found on Thursday is likely that of a man whose disappearance after a restaurant shooting incident prompted the arrest of Belgrade's police chief.

Political pressure and dwindling public funding mean that Europe’s museums are struggling to stay afloat - and fundraising via corporate sponsorship has brought its own issues.

The opposition CHP leadership is contesting a ruling removing its leadership - a blatant attempt by the court to influence the outcome of future elections, one Turkish political expert argues.

Elsewhere, Hungary’s new government seeks to limit PM’s mandate to a maximum of two terms; EU Parliament steps up pressure on Slovakia by urging freezing of EU funds; Czechia’s three-party coalition starts to show signs of division.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s planned Southern Interconnection gas pipeline to Croatia has become a focal point for domestic political wrangling and competing EU-US approaches to energy infrastructure.

Two asylum seekers tell of their 100-day ordeal helping Greek border guards push refugees and migrants back over the Evros river into Turkey, in return for their own free passage.

Serbia, the Kremlin’s closest Balkan friend, is warming its ties with another would-be EU member, Ukraine – despite the two states’ very different relations with Moscow.

In North Macedonia, an enduring ethnic divide extends to conflicting interpretations of what actually happened during World War II.

A diplomatic spat between Serbia and Montenegro over the latter’s independence anniversary celebrations underscores the lingering tensions between the two and the work-in-progress that is Montenegrin statehood.

In the latest in a series of espionage verdicts, Bojan Jevtic was jailed for six years for leaking confidential police information to Serbia's intelligence service, the BIA.

Orban turned Hungary’s public service media into a propaganda machine after taking office in 2010. Now out of power, questions are being raised about what to do with the state media and the journalists who supported the system.

Authorities are using the 2022 law to silence critical voices – while a newly adopted social media law poses further threats to free speech.

Playing tour guide over the weekend to various buildings renovated using billions in taxpayer money, Magyar said his government will keep the building previously used as the Prime Minister’s Office open to the public.

Businessman Blerim Devolli’s defamation lawsuit against BIRN Kosovo over a 2020 investigation revealing shell companies set up to profit from solar energy is dismissed after he fails to appear in court.

Belgrade prosecution says police chief Veselin Milic has been detained for 48 hours over missing person and alleged shooting at restaurant – as Serbia's Interior Ministry says he is 'no longer head' of the capital's police.

While the prize of EU membership is coming within grasping distance for Montenegro, our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights the uncertainties facing other countries in the region.

Police chief Veselin Milic detained for 48 hours over missing person and alleged shooting at restaurant – as Serbia's Interior Ministry says he is 'no longer head' of the capital's police.

Extensive injuries sustained in a police crackdown on anti-government protesters in the western Serbian town of Valjevo in August last year show the use of force was often ‘punitive’ rather than an immediate response to danger, according to a report compiled by forensic medicine …