Over a quarter of a million people have been affected by Bulgaria's latest water supply problem, sparking accusations of fraud and negligence - and promises of government action.

EU funds have allegedly been spent on yachts in Poland and racing cars in Lithuania. How can Brussels crack down on fraud? Poland’s government is struggling to explain why EU money from the ...

A small photo exhibition in the Serbian town of Backi Petrovac documenting anti-government protests was torn down by ruling party loyalists. The violence has sparked solidarity in Slovakia – and ...

Polish police secure the area of a cornfield where an drone fell in Osiny, eastern Poland, 20 August 2025. EPA/Wojtek Jargilo Democracy Digest: Russia Accused of Provocation After Drone Explodes ...

Kosovo’s Central Election Commission rejected the Srpska Lista party’s application to compete in the October 12 local elections, sparking expressions of concern from Western diplomats.

Created in 2015, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court was supposed to help foster post-war reconciliation between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. It never stood a chance.

Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, and after months of deadlock, Kosovo MPs failed to elect a speaker and constitute a new parliament again, as two candidates from the biggest party did not ...

As fires rage at overflowing and often illegal landfills in Albania, companies with criminal connections keep securing waste management contracts with the state.

A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.

It remains unclear why war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia have never investigated Bosnian Croat lawmaker Dragan Konta, despite a 2017 court ruling identifying him as the military police commander at ...

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’.

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.