Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

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.

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.

Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and nine others were found guilty of falsifying war veterans’ lists to enable people to claim welfare benefits, and sentenced to a year in prison each.

After the PKK began to disarm this month, Turkey said a ‘critical threshold’ had been crossed following decades of conflict. Those most affected by the fighting are still to be convinced, amid ...

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.

On the ninth anniversary of the 2016 failed coup attempt, which the government says supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated, another 306 people were detained across the country.

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...

The Western military alliance’s new national spending benchmark on defence and security may cause problems for smaller and poorer NATO member states in the Balkans who cannot afford 5 per cent ...

Participants cross the Elizabeth Bridge during the Budapest Pride march in Budapest, Hungary, 28 June 2025. Photo: Bela Varadi Democracy Digest: Hungarian PM May Find Pride Comes Before a Fall ...

Back in 2005, five women from countries recovering from brutal wars defied the odds to establish what would become a major independent media organisation - Balkan Investigative Reporting Network ...