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 ...

From the BIRN archives: When the European Union gave what is now North Macedonia candidate status in 2005, people celebrated. But Ana Petruseva argued that, from that point on, it was up to 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.

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.

“A few weeks before the 2024 election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina started, my phone rang – it was a top-ranking person in the city administration and the ruling party. This person had never ...

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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 ...

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 ...

October’s local elections will be dominated by the months-long deadlock in parliament – to the detriment of voters’ local concerns, experts warn. Starting from Saturday, more than 200 candidates for ...

Alexandru Balan's detention in Romania forms part of a wider crackdown on a suspected Belarusian spy network. A riot policeman at the entrance of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...