Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

The Bosnian Serb strongman has named his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August.

Twenty-seven people died in floods that struck Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2024. Some of the survivors are still living in temporary accommodation, haunted by the memory of the water, mud and ...

Without a new model of financial sustainability, the journalistic profession – a cornerstone of democracy – risks disappearing, warns the president of the European Federation of Journalists ahead of ...

The number of Russians granted Serbian citizenship under discretionary government powers has shot up since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At least five of them are under Western sanctions.

After another destructive fire season, experts and activists say that unless Greece starts investigating what’s starting these blazes, it will never be able to prevent them. Mobile phones beeped over ...

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As a new school year begins in North Macedonia, Vesna Janevska says deep-seated problems in the country’s education system will take years to sort out. The shortage of free-of-charge textbooks at the ...

Populist who took the lead in last year's annulled presidential election is sent for trial on six charges, including conspiracy to undermine the constitutional order. Romanian far-right runoff ...

Regulator penalises platorms including Netflix,Disney XD and Prime Video for showing films it claimed failed to respect Turkish family values. Illustration: Jakub Zerdzicki/Unsplash. Turkey’s Radio ...

Igor Grechushkin's detention in Sofia comes five years after a Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant for him in connection with the devastating Beirut port explosion of 2020. The port of Beirut in ...

In a tense parliament session, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gave the floor to the AI entity he has appointed as artificial intelligence minister, sparking an angry backlash from opposition MPs.