Experts say the proposed law would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and the media, stifling criticism ahead of the 2026 general election. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (C) speaks at the ...

Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha gestures casts his ballot in Tirana, 11 May 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA. As the scale of the Socialist Party’s parliamentary election victory became ...

Tourism is one of Croatia’s main economic drivers. It’s also causing environmental damage and transforming towns and cities into "theme parks", critics claim as the country prepares for the summer ...

The 55-year-old mayor of Bucharest is running on a platform of honesty, integrity and pro-Western stability as Romanians prepare for the second round of potentially the most consequential presidential ...

BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace. In March this year, the air traffic control ...

Police arrested 25 alleged members of a nationalist, far-right youth group in Thessaloniki in northern Greece for robbery and violent crimes. A banner for the Defend Salonica group displayed in ...

NATO accession was framed in Montenegro and North Macedonia in terms of economic benefit, not just security – but the benefit has yet to be felt.