Election oversight bodies need new powers to tackle the falsehoods, disinformation and 'dehumanising' abuse that tarnished February's parliamentary polls, a new BIRN report says.

Supporters of Croatia’s liquefied natural gas terminal on Krk says its opponents were proved wrong – the Adriatic island has ...

After a nightclub blaze killed 59 people on March 16, North Macedonia’s parliament approved a law change banning the use of ...

Organised crime groups from the Western Balkans are emerging as key players in smuggling cocaine from Latin America, ...

As Europe tightens its borders, an armed Afghan gang operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina has turned to kidnapping asylum seekers and demanding ransom payments from their families; their tactics ...

Opposition leader Sali Berisha hopes that borrowing MAGA-style rhetoric will being him victory in May’s elections – but many ...

To look into building backdoor access into encrypted communication for law enforcement, the EU Commission is working on a ...

A court in the city of Nis has ordered 30 days of custody for a woman suspected of carrying out a knife attack on a ...

Despite a court decision ordering his release, Abdulrahman al-Khalidi says he remains confined in a detention centre because ...

Donald Trump’s decision to defund the US aid agency has inspired illiberal governments and online media to smear civil ...

Proton was built on the principle that data should not be treated as a commodity, says CEO Andy Yen. A decade on, over 100 ...

An Athens museum has invited people of African descent in Greece to tell their stories for an innovative exhibition about ...