Christos Tsirogiannis has made repatriating stolen antiquities his life’s work, he tells BIRN – but it’s often been a ...

Experts question whether a modest tax on unused properties or those rented out short-term will really make much difference to ...

A Kosovo lawyer has been sentenced to 150 days in prison for sending a message to journalist Vehbi Kajtazi, owner of news ...

Opposition parties demand an investigation into alleged voting fraud in the recent elections, pointing accusing fingers at the party of oligarch Delyan Peevski.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban will host two key meetings of European bodies in Budapest this week. Isolated among EU partners, ...

Shehrije Gerbeshi, the founder of the first women’s chess club in Kosovo, wants more women and girls to share her passion – ...

Swedish gang wars In the ongoing conflict between local drug cartels in Sweden, over 40 people were killed in 2023 alone.

A lawyer for Vesna Medenica, who resigned from her post in 2021, said she would appeal a six-month jail sentence imposed for abusing her official position.

Pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu defeated rival Alexandr Stoianoglo in a run-off presidential election seen as a choice for the country's voters between the EU and Moscow after a campaign marred by ...

Shock has turned to anger in Serbia over the deaths of 14 people when an outdoor canopy of the Novi Sad railway station collapsed, months after the completion of a three-year renovation of the station ...

After the government removed three mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party due to alleged terror ties, the DEM Party and other opposition parties accused it of 'stealing municipalities it could not win ...

Poland’s intelligence services used Pegasus to spy on Klementyna Suchanow, an author, journalist and leader of the women’s movement, as well as possibly thousands of others. Why, she wonders, were the ...