Some Croatian defence industry manufacturers are leaders in their field, and business is booming. Assault rifles, pistols, demining hardware and helmets – these are the backbone of Croatia’s growing ...

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 Bosnian ...

After a long crisis, new elections may provide a government at last, but are unlikely to resolve the underlying challenges facing Kosovo – or ease the political disillusionment that has grown within ...

In Kosovo, image-based sexual abuse, sometimes known as ‘revenge porn’, feeds on stigma and an intense fear of exposure, meaning victims suffer largely alone. Five years ago, Albana, then in her early ...

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...

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Bulgarian leaders and German company hail deal to build plant manufacturing gunpowder and artillery shells for NATO and EU countries. A worker in the state-owned armament enterprise VMZ-Sopot in ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement and Europe's Green Deal were aimed at taking serious action to mitigate climate change. As the COP30 summit in Brazil approaches, doubts have been raised about EU countries' ...

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. The decision by the National ...

Thousands of Poles have a grandfather who was forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht. Polish politicians are still not ready to properly examine the vexed historical issue, while President Nawrocki ...

An anti-Turkish demonstration in the capital Podgorica has unsettled members of the country’s Turkish community – and has caused concern in Ankara. The anti-Turkish rally in Podgorica on October 28.

As cyberattacks in the region become ever more sophisticated and daring, Western Balkan governments need to improve their cybersecurity frameworks and cooperate, a new BIRN report warns. The ...