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.

Police chief holds "baton-wielding" protesters responsible for Tuesday night's violence near ruling party offices in Serbian towns – but local media reports said people in front of SNS's ...

Former communist countries in Southeast Europe face catastrophic depopulation, with far-reaching social and political consequences.

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

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

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’.

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history ...

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.

Svetlana Broz, who died on March 22, watched her grandfather’s legacy crumble but did everything she could to mitigate the consequences.

As the tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina goes, instead of fireworks, the country welcomes the new year with another political dispute – this time, over the impending verdict in the trial of ...

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.