BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace.

From politics to the media business, high expectations often go hand-in-hand with disappointments big and small, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week shows.

Roman Giertych, lawyer, is surrounded by the press as he makes his way to the Poland’s National Public Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, Poland, 03 August 2017.

On March 12, employees of Ukrainian House (Ukrainski Dom), the main NGO representing Ukrainians in Poland, received a bizarre email. The municipality of Bydgoszcz, in northern Poland, was writing ...

The city of Niksic. Photo: Wikipedia/Janusz Recław. The suspected remains of three members of the Klapuh family – killed in 1992 after fleeing the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – were exhumed ...

Illustration, Croatian conscripts take the oath. Photo: morh.hr. Croatia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Ivan Anusic, presented the new Law on Service in the Armed Forces ...