After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Migrant workers from Africa have told BIRN about having to surrender their passports on arrival in Albania, working unpaid overtime and facing deportation once they are no longer required. Many ...

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with ...

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Court hands deputy head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo a six-month jail term and a two-year ban on entering Kosovo for speech 'inciting ethnic hatred'.

On a return trip to Bosnia, the British reporter who in 1992 helped expose the cruelty of the Serb-run camps in Bosnia says journalists must always side with the ‘bones in the ground’ – and ...

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground.

Gagauzia region leader Evghenia Gutul handed seven-year jail term for illegally smuggling Kremlin cash into Moldova to influence voters.

Download this e-book collection of Balkan Insight’s reports telling the story of the mass protest movement in Serbia from November 2024 to May 2025.

Romania’s first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried with full state honours on Thursday – but not all Romanians mourn his passing.

With documentaries that examine a world ravaged by war and greed - from Ukraine to Palestine and the aftermath of conflicts in Kosovo and Bosnia - DokuFest sought to offer an antidote to feelings ...