Tourism is one of Croatia’s main economic drivers. It’s also causing environmental damage and transforming towns and cities into "theme parks", critics claim as the country prepares for the summer ...

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade increased the sentence handed down to Danko Vladicic for killing two elderly Bosniaks in the Foca area in 1992 during the Bosnian war, jailing him for 12 years.

Ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, also known as Victory Day, were held across the Balkans on Friday. With wreath-laying ceremonies and tributes to the fallen ...

The 55-year-old mayor of Bucharest is running on a platform of honesty, integrity and pro-Western stability as Romanians prepare for the second round of potentially the most consequential presidential ...

Postal votes and a smattering of new parties are threatening a shift in the Albanian political landscape in an election on May 11. The ruling Socialist Party and the opposition Democrats are ...

With less than two weeks before Poland’s presidential elections, opposition Law and Justice party-backed candidate Karol Nawrocki is facing claims he was dishonest about owning a second property.

BIRN unravels how a 2022 arbitration ruling against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Republika Srpska entity almost cost the country control of its airspace. In March this year, the air traffic control ...

Police arrested 25 alleged members of a nationalist, far-right youth group in Thessaloniki in northern Greece for robbery and violent crimes. A banner for the Defend Salonica group displayed in ...

Balkan members of the Catholic Church have praised “broad-minded, spontaneous” Pope Leo XIV for his education, experience and openness. Newly elected Pope Leo XIV blesses the faithful from the ...

Created by the Alampanos brothers in 1972, Galaxy Bar has notched up 53 years. Its first home was at 5, Stadiou Street, one of the central streets in Athens. It moved to No. 10 in 1990. “We took ...

Serbia loves to boast that it has attracted more foreign investment than other countries in the region, using this as a marketing tool to hook yet more outsiders. To persuade them in, it spends ...