The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

An oral history of wartime rape survivors seeks to tell their ‘collective history’ before, during and after the 1998-99 war in Kosovo.

For a fifth night in a row, protests in Serbia were marked by clashes between demonstrators and police – with each side accusing the other of provoking conflict.

Fertiliser production has left millions of tonnes of phosphogypsum waste at dumps like that near Veles in North Macedonia and Kutina in Croatia. A lack of transparency over the fate of the ...

The owners of the biggest broadcasters in Albania have all benefitted from ‘strategic investor’ status granted by the government for other projects, raising doubts about editorial independence.

If Serbia is serious about its European path, it must offers the Russians in its midst a real welcome.

Elsewhere, Polish president bumps PM off call that Trump held with European leaders; billion-euro tender to reshape Slovakia’s ambulance network collapses in acrimony; China cuts all ties with ...

The Albanian police’s action – forcing the country’s largest news broadcaster off air without a court order – sets an alarming precedent.