Mayor Erion Veliaj looks on course to continue governing the city from his jail cell – after the Constitutional Court annulled his dismissal and PM Edi Rama said he will not call early elections in ...

Churches in southeast Europe are under growing pressure to address the theological and practical issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence in religion. When the 14th century Tuman Orthodox ...

Lawsuit accuses unknown administrators of a Facebook page of falsely showing the minister urging citizens to invest in "high-yield" schemes. Greek Minister of Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis, ...

New rules making it easier to shoot bears roaming in towns and villages follow rise in reports of bear attacks on humans and populated areas. A male brown bear at the courtyard of the Octavian Goga ...

In Kosovo, image-based sexual abuse, sometimes known as ‘revenge porn’, feeds on stigma and an intense fear of exposure, meaning victims suffer largely alone. Five years ago, Albana, then in her early ...

The parliamentary probe based on conspiracy theories about the philanthropist’s alleged meddling is backed by Bulgaria's main pro-Russian and nationalist parties as well as by tycoon Delyan Peevski’s ...

The Western Balkan countries remain important corridors in Europe for drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, says the 2025 Organised Crime Index, produced by an anti-graft NGO. Montenegrin ...

Intimidation of journalists working for independent media in Albania is getting worse, as state-level and local officials attempt to silence critical voices, both online and face-to-face. When ...

Pupils at some Serbian high schools left classes to show support for the mother of one of the victims of the Novi Sad railway station tragedy, Diana Hrka, whose hunger strike is in its fifth day.

They are Muslims like the majority of Kosovo Albanians, and speak a similar language to Serbs, but Kosovo’s minority Bosniaks have encountered discrimination, violence and poverty as they endeavoured ...

As the country’s biggest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, was relegated to opposition benches, fears grew that it was stirring up ethnic tension in a bid to regain its lost status. This post ...

In finding Greece responsible for a “systematic practice of pushbacks”, the European Court of Human Rights has offered a glimmer of hope for asylum seekers summarily sent back to Turkey - but few ...