Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week zooms in on countries where the future of democracy seems to be ...

The PKK’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire has won support among Kurds in southeastern Turkey, but hope for peace is ...

Donald Trump’s decision to defund the US aid agency has inspired illiberal governments and online media to smear civil ...

In 2018, the sole survivor of the March 1999 massacre of 42 Kosovo Albanian men, women and children in the village of ...

Staff at Croatia's public broadcaster protested on Friday against a government 'consolidation plan', which includes cutting 700 to 800 employees – about a third of the total staff. Croatian ...

A new BIRN documentary shows how money laundering has been increasing poverty, prices and income inequality in Albania, ...

A BIRN investigation into the country’s institutions for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities uncovered widespread exploitation, violence and sexual abuse carried out by staff ...

Across Europe, criminal gangs are becoming more powerful and their recruits are getting younger. The authorities are struggling to respond. In Sweden, gang warfare has been raging for years ...