This week’s Balkan Insight Premium stories reflect the region’s ongoing push-and-pull between hopes of peace and the bitter weight of history.

Pristina Basic Court on Friday ordered 30 days of detention for a police officer who was arrested the day before on espionage allegations. Bojan Jevtic, an ethnic Serb from the eastern town of ...

Turkish government hails new measures – which will apply only to people who previously obtained Schengen visas – and have not violated any visa rules.

We Continue the Change is facing unprecedented challenges as key figures are targeted by institutions – potentially leaving pro-Russian nationalists as the only ‘opposition’ left in Bulgaria.

Tensions erupted this week between the Czech and Slovak authorities following a joint police operation in Ukraine that targeted the suspect behind a wave of bomb threats against schools last year ...

Highly professional outlet’s disappearance will lower the quality and standards of media throughout the region – but could stimulate a push for reform and change.