The head of the Anti-Corruption Agency's governing council tells BIRN that it can’t properly tackle graft – or implement the ...

Elsewhere, Von der Leyen meets Central Europe leaders in Poland to discuss floods; waters recede in Czechia as regional ...

A new permanent exhibition, ‘Sarajevo Scrapbook’, displays personal items and drawings by children who were killed during the ...

New centre will supply information to asylum-seekers, refugees under protection and foreign workers, offering services that ...

Ending a 15-year probe into the Marian apparitions reported at Medjugorje, the Church said it recognised the 'abundant ...

Albanian rights groups criticised threats voiced by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who claimed, without providing proof, ...

For years, Albanians have been leaving behind small towns and villages for the capital, Tirana, or for life abroad. Some are ...

In Kosovo, agritourism is on the rise, with people abandoning urban stress to invest in village revitalisation and establish ...

As growing apples became unprofitable, many farmers from North Macedonia’s Prespa region left for the cities and their ...

As cities get busier, some Georgians are opting for a quieter, rural lifestyle, leaving the urban hustle behind. But whether this trickle will reverse the long-term exodus from villages remains to be ...

Infertility is a global problem that affects the Balkan countries as well. Not an entirely new phenomenon, couples were also ...

In more than doubling the minimum wage, Kosovo’s government is making a play for votes before elections in February while ...