Some 86 percent of Europeans say heritage matters. Yet the reality on the ground presents a more complicated picture. From lotteries to preserve historic sites, to crowds flocking to European Heritage ...

The start to the new parliamentary session was overshadowed by more allegations of sexual abuse and systemic cover-up at Hungary’s state care facilities. The scandal risks undermining Fidesz’s ‘family ...

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

The Interior Ministry is seeking to prosecute Mabel Matiz over his latest song, which it says is obscene and undermines public morality.

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 ...

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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 ...

Three more people have been arrested in Moldova on suspicion of involvement in plotting to cause unrest in the country after allegedly being trained at Russian-run camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The National Assembly in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska voted in favour of a referendum that is intended to reject a court ban on strongman leader Milorad Dodik holding the entity’s ...

Drakulic has spent her life challenging patriarchy, nationalism and power structures across various regimes – and at 76, she is still taking aim at the failings of the elite. “I have no social ...

Balkan gangs and gangsters – some of them exposed in BIRN investigations – feature prominently on a list of 25 alleged people-smugglers sanctioned by the British government. Alen Basil, who was named ...

The low youth turnout at Albania’s parliamentary election was an alarm call. Without young voices demanding reform, the country cannot tackle corruption and democratic backsliding, end the brain drain ...