A day after a huge commemorative rally in Novi Sad, clashes between ruling party supporters and protesters erupted in front of parliament, resulting in 37 arrests. Riot police separate pro-government ...

An initiative meant to modernise youth health education has turned into an ideological flashpoint. Was it always doomed to fail in Polish culture and amid the current polarisation?

After a long crisis, new elections may provide a government at last, but are unlikely to resolve the underlying challenges facing Kosovo – or ease the political disillusionment that has grown within ...

Washington has announced plans to reduce its military footprint in Eastern Europe and remove several hundred soldiers from Romania. NATO exercise at Smardan, near Galati, Romania, February 2025. Photo ...

Bulgarian leaders and German company hail deal to build plant manufacturing gunpowder and artillery shells for NATO and EU countries. A worker in the state-owned armament enterprise VMZ-Sopot in ...

Montenegro is to end its visa-free regime for Turkish citizens in line with EU requests and following a violent incident involving Turkish citizens, whose number in the country has risen in recent ...

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Investigators have documented the use of foreign exchange offices in Albania to move drug money, either in crypto or via a centuries-old, trust-based system called Hawala. The area is known as Dollari ...

The European People’s Party has already begun scrutinising the membership of Vucic’s SNS party in the EPP family following the worsening situation in Serbia, but there is still no timeline for the ...

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. The decision by the National ...

Italian anthropologist Giuseppe Tateo speaks to BIRN about the symbolism and ongoing controversies surrounding the imposing National Cathedral about to be consecrated in Bucharest. Yielding slightly ...