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North Macedonia Bar Exam Protest Revives Albanian Language Debate
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Albanian law students from North Macedonia say they should be allowed to take the bar exam in their mother tongue. The dispute speaks to a broader problem of unfulfilled language rights.

Romania Risks Becoming a Car No One Wants to Drive
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Globalno · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The crisis in Romania is not the government’s fall – but the creation of a dangerous governance vacuum that no mainstream parties seem willing to fill.

Democracy Digest: Former Polish Justice Minister’s Escape Route Leads to Washington
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Elsewhere, Magyar sworn in as new Hungarian PM and holds first cabinet meeting; Trump ally tipped as new US ambassador to Slovakia; Czech president and PM still at odds over who should attend NATO summit in Ankara.

UN Court Rejects Release Request for ‘Deteriorating’ Ratko Mladic
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Bosnian Serb wartime military chief Ratko Mladic’s plea for release on humanitarian grounds due to his deteriorating health was rejected on the grounds that he is getting high-quality medical care in detention.

Kosovo Ruling Party Accuses Mayor of ‘Brutally’ Assaulting Deputy Minister
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Weeks before snap elections in Kosovo, a claim that the Mayor of Skenderaj attacked a senior official of the ruling Vetevendosje party in the town centre raises tensions.

Driver Faces Attempted Murder Charge After Car Hits Man at Serbian Protest
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

A driver accused of reversing into an elderly man at a commemorative protest vigil in central Belgrade has been held on suspicion of aggravated attempted murder.

Croatia Receives Remains of 500 Post-WWII Victims from Slovenia
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Remains of fleeing Croat fighters and civilians executed by Yugoslav Partisans at close of World War II were handed over in the first such transfer between Croatia and Slovenia.

Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Suspicions Linger in Dropped Albania Smuggling Case
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Prosecutors dropped a probe into the alleged smuggling of Russian oil through an Albanian port in 2023, but behind the vessel in question lies a network of individuals and companies linked by Ukrainian intelligence agents to an alleged ‘shadow fleet’ used by Russia to bypass sanc…

Divide and Rule: Turkey’s Ruling Party Uses Opposition Defections to Expand Reach
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The opposition sees the desertion of some of its mayors and councillors to join Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP as part of a government strategy aimed at weakening local resistance and consolidating power.

NATO’s Eastern, Nordic Allies Pledge Stronger Defence Cooperation
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Meeting in Romania ahead of the July's NATO summit in Ankara, 14 member countries called for closer coordination on regional security along the alliance's eastern flank to counter the continuing threat from Russia.

Bulgaria Ends State-Funded Protection for Ex-PM and Sanctioned Oligarch
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Kina · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Security Agency cuts off funded security for political heavyweights Delyan Peevski and Boyko Borissov – as some question whether they were entitled to such services in the first place.

Letter from Brussels: May is the Month for Montenegro
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The EU feels a spring in its step as it readies to accept its first new member since 2013 – a decision of enormous symbolic weight, which will also set important precedents.

Bidding for Comeback, Kosovo’s Opposition LDK Bets on Ex-President Osmani
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Abandoned by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Kosovo's ex-President Vjosa Osmani has returned to the opposition party she left six years ago. But will the rapprochement help or hinder the LDK come elections in June?

Kosovo Special Court Rejects ‘Misleading’ Rights Violations Claims
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers said a review commissioned by the Kosovo Ombudsperson does not establish that the rights of defendants at the Hague-based war crimes court were violated, contrary to media reports.

Report Slams Secretive, Prisonlike Conditions in Bosnia’s Migrant Centre
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

New report says Bosnia’s only centre for the detention of migrants and refugees operates without clear oversight and transparency and in violation of international standards, especially concerning the detention of minors.

Bulgaria, Poland Among EU States Accused of Selling Spy Tech to Autocracies
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

In a report, HRW urges the EU Commission to strengthen due diligence and transparency rules after finding surveillance tech produced by EU companies is being exported to states with poor human rights records.

Bulgaria Mulls Targeting Price Hikes With Fines and ‘Fair Price’ Rule
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Globalno · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Rumen Radev's new government pledges to tackle soaring prices by forcing large retailers to prove sudden rises are economically justified – not rooted in speculation.

Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Five in Village Attack
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Court sentences Dusko Zoric to 15 years in prison for involvement in a Bosnian Serb Army assault that killed several civilians in Zecovi near Prijedor in July 1992.

Justice in the Dock: The Kosovo Specialist Chambers and a Crisis of Legitimacy
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

As the verdict in the case against Hashim Thaci and his co-defendants at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers approaches, a difficult question comes into focus: what is achieved when justice is delivered in a form that the affected society largely rejects?

Croatia Finds Serb Ex-Paramilitary Guilty of Crimes Against Captured Fighters
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 8. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Osijek court sentences Zeljko Travica to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed in Ceric and Mirkovci in 1991, when captured Croat fighters were abused and executed by Serb forces.

ARTE Europe Weekly: Are European Political Firewalls Beginning to Show Cracks?
Balkan · Balkan Insight · SAD · 8. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

In Romania, the Social Democrats joined forces with the far right to bring down the pro-EU government. Elsewhere, some mainstream parties are considering deals, or already cooperating with, parties they previously saw as too radical.

Serbian Water Polo in Crisis After Federation Chief ‘Belittles’ Players
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 8. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Eleven players withdrew from the Olympic gold-winning men’s national team while the head coach resigned after criticism from the new Federation chief sparked anger.

Radev’s Party Takes Office in Bulgaria, Pledging Stability But Raising Early Doubts
Balkan · Balkan Insight · SAD · 8. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

New government headed by ex-President Rumen Radev officially assumed office on Friday, with its anti-corruption mandate already facing scrutiny.

Democracy Digest: Hungary’s ‘Luxury Elites’ Try to Outrun the Reckoning
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 8. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Elsewhere, Poland’s institutional crisis continues to disrupt workings of state; a Congress of Sudeten Germans set to take place in Czechia prompts protests; and Slovak judges issue warning over political attacks on judicial independence.

Bosnia Sets October Election Date Amid Push for New Voting Technology
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 7. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Central Election Commission schedules elections at several levels for October 4, while preparing to introduce new biometric voter identification and ballot-scanning technology.

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