As Moldova consolidates its municipalities on its path to EU membership, the minority-populated, Russian-speaking regions in the south present challenges as questions of administrative efficiency, ...

Ahead of Croatia's annual Day Against Violence Against Women, protests staged in 17 towns and cities called for a stronger institutional response and a specific law against gender-based violence.

At a meeting at UN headquarters with chair of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency, secretary-general Antonio Guterres says glorification of war criminals is a threat to regional reconciliation and ...

Far-right firebrand Calin Georgescu faces fresh legal troubles as police investigate organised criminal group that allegedly defrauded a businessman of a million euros.

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Follow our correspondents in Pristina and The Hague for the latest reports and reactions as Kosovo’s ex-President Hashim Thaci and three other wartime Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla leaders hear the ...

Record-breaking penalties imposed by Bosnia’s Central Election Commission for campaign violations will not change the main parties’ ways, fair-elections campaigner warns.

Top politicians in Kosovo said the Hague judgment finding ex-President Thaci and three other Kosovo Liberation Army ex-leaders guilty of war crimes was unjust – but a Serbian minister said it proved ...

MEP Siegfried Muresan has accepted the challenge of becoming Romania’s prime minister-designate, but his prospects for forming a new government are poor, experts said.

With elections approaching in Bosnia and Serbia, rhetoric is heating up, while in Turkey and Albania, campaigners are feeling the pressure, as our round-up of Balkan Insight Premium stories shows.

The EU said Ursula von der Leyen's Balkan visit will miss Serbia and Bosnia – citing elections – but Serbia's president dismissed this as ‘elegant’ excuse for a no-show after controversy over Ratko ...

Authorities arrest fund managers suspected of manipulating markets and liquidate 130 troubled investment funds as turmoil roils country's financial industry. A Turkish trader at the Borsa Istanbul ...