From Budapest to Ankara, online freedoms are being compromised by government legislation, emerging technologies and tech ...

National laws may be compliant with international standards but weak oversight, corruption and cash economies hamper an ...

Thirty-five years after entering politics, Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac tells BIRN the wartime ‘myths’ of the 1990s ...

Strasbourg court says Romania's justice system did not protect the rights of a woman whose ex-boyfriend posted intimate ...

Weekend warriors’ were volunteer fighters who popped in and out of war zones in the 1990s. Many came from Montenegro, but few ...

Draft amendments to Serbia’s criminal code have been slammed by legal experts as badly written, rushed and a potential threat ...

Authorities in Romania are probing the role of TikTok in far-right candidate Calin Georgescu’s shock first-round win in the ...

As Kosovo investigates the suspected terrorist attack on a water canal, which caused significant damage to essential ...

Romania’s centre-left Social Democratic Party came out ahead in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but gains by right-wing ...

Czechia is on track to ban the sale of energy drinks for children and young teenagers, for whom the beverage has acquired a ...

The remains of two soldiers and five civilians from the Vukovar area killed in 1991 – including a father and two sons found ...

Speculation is growing over a potential move by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to amass more power, capitalising on chaos in ...