A new BIRN documentary shows how money laundering has been increasing poverty, prices and income inequality in Albania, ...

Staff at Croatia's public broadcaster protested on Friday against a government 'consolidation plan', which includes cutting ...

Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week zooms in on countries where the future of democracy seems to be ...

A BIRN investigation into the country’s institutions for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities uncovered widespread exploitation, violence and sexual abuse carried out by staff ...

Across Europe, criminal gangs are becoming more powerful and their recruits are getting younger. The authorities are struggling to respond.

Bosnia's state court has asked Interpol to issue an international 'red notice' for the arrest of Republika Srpska President ...

Government agency for radio and TV slaps fines and suspensions on four TV channels for their coverage of mass protests ...

Albin Kurti's office blamed Moscow for the prank call in which a member of a Russian comic duo pretending to be Latvia's ...

The Bosnian state court sentenced Zdravko Cvoric to seven years in prison for raping a Bosniak woman prisoner in the ...

In a heart-warming book tinged with melancholy, Sofia-based American Rory Miller explores the joys and sorrows of Bulgarian ...

As Turks protest against the detention of opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu, the government is going for a news blackout – ...

BIRN investigations have uncovered how journalists conducting public-interest investigations in Romania were put under ...