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.

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

Polish President Andrzej Duda (L) and President-elect Karol Nawrocki (R) meet at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, 03 June 2025. EPA-EFE/Pawel Supernak Nawrocki’s Victory May Prove ...

Whatever information Thanasis Koukakis had been sharing with his readers, it was not quite enough. Someone wanted more. Twice in the space of two years, the financial journalist’s phone calls ...

Nuclear vision: A key question will be whether the energy crisis will provide enough momentum to finally restart nuclear projects that have been stalled for decades. Czechia is due to select the ...

As well as the large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology in urban areas, the authorities have sought to monitor opponents, activists and journalists, says ...

In a statement responding to this recording, Giertych speculated there might be another reason why the right-wing media published the material now. “As for the timing of publication, I think it ...

Omladinski Program staff Darko Skert, Neven Andelic, Marko Milovic and Senad Zaimovic. Photo by Milomir Kovacevic, courtesy of Lida Hujic. Made in Sarajevo: When Bosnia’s Public Broadcaster was ...

A move to turn the site of the former Spac labour camp in northern Albania into a film set has revived calls for better protection of what’s left of Albania’s dark communist past.

Six years after Kosovo established a Committee for Crime Victims Compensation, thousands of victims of crime have received assistance, but not a single victim of war crimes. This is despite the ...