After the US paused visa processing for 75 countries, including Albania, the opposition in Tirana has accused the government of getting the country put on Trump's "blacklist". Albanian Minister for ...

New draft law aims to drastically tighten restrictions on smoking, and on advertising nicotine products, amid stubbornly high consumption rates. A woman smokes a cigarette in Skopje. Photo: EPA/GEORGI ...

BIRN's monitoring of digital rights violations in August and September highlighted a threatening Hungarian ‘dark web’ site that contained illegally obtained images of women, plus a series of arrests ...

Experts say more proactive approaches may be needed to deal with ongoing wave of emailed bomb alerts that are highly disruptive – but difficult to trace. Hoax bomb threats, mostly sent by email to ...

Three years after the Belgrade Court of Appeal acquitted four Serbian security operatives of the murder in 1999 of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija, the Supreme Court said that the verdict ...

In 2017 the opposition VMRO DPMNE party accused the then ruling Social Democrats of secret plans to take in Middle Eastern migrants. These turned out to be unfounded. Now the VMRO DPMNE is in power, ...

Despite the January 9 celebrations being ruled unconstitutional, the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, again marked the day with a mass parade in Banja Luka. Several thousand people gathered on ...

Foreign workers are increasingly vital to Croatia’s economy, but the public mood is souring – and some political parties are deepening divisions. It’s a stark figure. Only three per cent of Croatian ...

Decades ago, Ada Bojana was thronging with nudists. Now it’s under threat from the sea and state neglect. Stepping between abandoned bungalows, tourist guide Ismet Karamanaga recalls the naked heyday ...

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, ...

Orthodox churches that celebrate the Nativity according to the Julian calendar marked the great Christian holiday on Wednesday. An Orthodox priest offers sacred wine and bread to believers after a ...

After rejecting the government’s offered support measures, farmers on tractors are blocking Greece’s main roads and customs points. Greek farmers decided on Thursday to block the country's main roads, ...