Staff at Croatia's public broadcaster protested on Friday against a government 'consolidation plan', which includes cutting ...

A new BIRN documentary shows how money laundering has been increasing poverty, prices and income inequality in Albania, ...

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A BIRN investigation into the country’s institutions for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities uncovered widespread exploitation, violence and sexual abuse carried out by staff ...

Government agency for radio and TV slaps fines and suspensions on four TV channels for their coverage of mass protests ...

Across Europe, criminal gangs are becoming more powerful and their recruits are getting younger. The authorities are struggling to respond.

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

After months of saying nothing about the demonstrations sweeping Serbia, there are signs that the European Commission is ...

Bosnia's state court has asked Interpol to issue an international 'red notice' for the arrest of Republika Srpska President ...

The Bosnian state court sentenced Zdravko Cvoric to seven years in prison for raping a Bosniak woman prisoner in the ...

Two journalists from BIRN in Serbia were the targets of a failed attempt to install the powerful Israeli spyware Pegasus on ...

In a heart-warming book tinged with melancholy, Sofia-based American Rory Miller explores the joys and sorrows of Bulgarian ...