MPs meet members of an initiative that has collected 1.2 million signtaures, including 65,000 from Croatia, demanding safe and accsssible abortion rights for all women in the EU. Members of the My ...

Arbenita Muhaxheri has spent most of her life wondering what happened to her mother after she was stopped at a Serbian checkpoint in 1999 during the Kosovo war. A deal agreed a year ago to expedite ...

The draft bill – twice amended but still widely criticised – was approved by all 78 MPs from the coalition after the ruling parties abruptly curtailed a debate that had been dominated by the ...

The Bosnian state court confirmed the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a post-war Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, clearing him of taking part in wartime attacks that killed several ...

All 35 defendants and the representatives of the three companies who are being tried for the deadly fire at the Pulse nightclub in Kocani in March pleaded not guilty. The main defendant in the Kocani ...

Varna's opposition mayor Blagomir Kotsev – whose arrest in July on corruption charges sparked angry demonstrations – has been released after supporters raised the hefty bail sum in hours. Varna mayor ...

Tussle over concert permits between Zagreb’s left-green mayor and right-wing firebrand Marko Perkovic Thompson reflects unresolved ideological tensions in Croatia. This post is also available in this ...

Both progressive Hungarian Jews and mainstream Jewish leaders are raising concerns about Trump’s appointment of Ben Landa to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary. With the departure last week of ...

The mighty skyscraper in Zagreb that once housed the largest publishing house in the Balkans looks set to be demolished after being gutted by a blaze. Croatia’s Minister of Construction, Branko Bacic, ...

Denied extradition requests, strained relations and historical revisionism: the Nord Stream saga, a thorn in Polish-German ties for over a decade, is far from over. On October 17, a Polish court ...

In the first of BIRN’s series about women’s wartime activism, Snezana Jakovljevic recalls how attending an anti-war protest in her hometown Krusevac after Serbian soldiers staged a mutiny was the ...