Albania and Kosovo applauded the Trump administration’s military operation against Venezuela's regime and the ousting of Nicolas Maduro, while other states in the region initially remained silent or ...

The coalition’s last-minute changes have done little to calm concerns that the approved law – which dismisses the watchdog’s leadership – remains incompatible with EU rules and is primarily a form of ...

In Serbia, 2025 was the year when protesting students rejected collaboration with the country’s civil society NGOs - but at what cost? Twenty-one-year-old Jovana Pongracic is a third-year student of ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. Our Premium Service gives you full access to all content published on ...

The year closes with an investigation into suspected fraud in the EU’s ‘foreign ministry’ – plus both good and bad news for three Balkan would-be members of the European bloc. Greetings from Brussels, ...

Albania‘s High Prosecution Council chooses Klodian Braho as new head of the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime - a body with the tough task of tackling high-level graft.

Despite fresh tweaks to Turkey’s cybersecurity infrastructure, mass data breaches continue. No surprise, say experts, when policy is not implemented and the security culture goes unchallenged. In ...

From mass protests and fragile peace talks to pressure on opposition parties and the jailing of journalists, Turkey had another politically troubled year. Riot police use teargas to disperse ...

The recently-passed Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act shows that some US lawmakers still care about the region. But it doesn’t mean that Donald Trump is going to tell Aleksandar Vucic to be ...

Viktor Orban’s government has made no secret of its pro-Russian stance and is also exploiting anti-Ukrainian sentiment in its campaign for the April 2026 parliamentary elections. This programme is ...

Court temporarily restores Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku to her duties, after the government disputed a court order that had suspended her. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Belinda Balluku ...

Bosnia's state court sentences Dalibor Railic and Aleksandar Mijatovic to 29 and 34 years in prison respectively for the murder of police chief Radenko Basic in 2022 in a drug crime-related hit.