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Police raids targeted call centre fraud operations across Tirana, with 10 suspects arrested and almost a million euros in cash seized.

Two officials from Vetevendosje, Kosovo’s ruling party, were sentenced on Tuesday for inciting hate towards a judge and prosecutor who released a Kosovo Serb suspected of an attack on election offices in North Mitrovica.

President Vucic confirms BIRN/Haaretz investigation about joint Serb-Israeli drone production plans and says he hopes to significantly increase arms sales and defence cooperation with Israel.

Yet because the election system is designed to favour strong parties, a two-thirds parliamentary majority seems to have become the norm in Hungary, which contains its own dangers.

A year since the election of political novice Karol Nawrocki, his presidency has unfolded against the backdrop of a shakeup of Poland’s political landscape, signalling a generational change and a shift to the far right.

The arrest of opposition politician Umit Erkol on corruption allegations has intensified claims that President Erdogan’s government is using the judiciary to target political rivals in a sweeping crackdown.

A perfect storm of a child abuse scandal, the poor state of the economy and services, and a charismatic former insider with a well-organised party and a huge, diverse voter base were the necessary ingredients to oust Hungary’s strongman.

According to the polls, Hungary’s Prime Minister could lose his majority on Sunday after 16 years in office.

Elsewhere, report puts number on what Poland has gained from EU membership; still unclear who or how many people will represent Czechia at upcoming NATO summit; and a legal adviser to Slovak PM acquitted of judicial interference and indirect corruption.

President Erdogan’s ruling party has taken control of the important municipality of Bursa following the arrest of its opposition mayor on April 4, along with 30 others.

Fed by demand for new guns and leftovers from depots looted in the 1990s, Albania has become a key hub for small-arms trafficking.

The two countries’ failure to maintain liaisons to the EU’s criminal justice agency – partly for political reasons – is a setback to vital cooperation against cross-border organised crime groups.

The race has been a showdown between an experienced but visibly aged and increasingly authoritarian Orban, and a rock star-like newcomer Magyar with a rare talent for social media and endless energy to tour the country and reach out to the remotest parts of Hungary.

The Greek government will ban children under 15 years old from using TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, saying the goal is 'to push the EU in this direction as well'.

Court documents and interviews have revealed more about recruits from Moldova who were trained by Russian instructors at camps in Bosnia and Serbia to foment unrest, scout embassies and use military-grade drones.

‘Reporting War’, organised by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in Sarajevo, examines journalists’ role in the Yugoslav wars – and how some nationalist media helped to fuel them.

Kosovo will face a much more hostile international environment if far-right parties gain more power in core EU states like France and Germany, while the US under Trump remains indifferent to the Balkans.

Court documents and interviews have revealed more about recruits from Moldova who were trained by Russian instructors at camps in Bosnia and Serbia to foment unrest, scout embassies and use military-grade drones.

Rumen Radev says his party's likely success in April 19 elections could trigger a rerun of events last year in Romania – where a far-right candidate's presidential win was annulled by courts citing 'foreign interference'.

US vice president heaps praise on Hungary’s right-wing leader in a late attempt to swing the weekend election Viktor Orban’s way.

A surge in deepfake pornography is causing alarm across Europe, and the law is struggling to keep up.

Rumen Radev says his party's likely success in April 19 elections could trigger a rerun of events last year in Romania – where a far-right candidate's presidential win was annulled by courts citing 'foreign interference'.

Orban’s motive for clashing with the EU and Ukraine over the halt in oil through the Druzhba pipeline is clear. Less understandable is why Fico is following him into a confrontation where the long-term stakes are alarmingly high.

Looking back, the 2006 package of proposed constitutional reforms was a missed chance to improve on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s dysfunctional post-war system – and one that may not reoccur.

Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza.