OPINION by Vuk Vuksanovic I For Macron, it was a chance to demonstrate French leadership in Europe; for Vucic, it provided welcome support from abroad at a time of rumbling discontent at home. Read the opinion: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/03/mac…

In its rush to join the European Union, has Moldova got ahead of itself? Find out in our analysis: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/03/aft…

Kosovo authorities announced on Saturday afternoon that two crossing points with Serbia in Bernjak and Merdare which were closed last night after protesting Serbs blocked roads to the border inside Serbia, have now been reopened. More on this topic: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/02/kos…

🇷🇸🏳️‍🌈 The Belgrade Pride March started peacefully in the Serbian capital, with organisers predicting it will be the largest ever in the city – on the tenth anniversary of the first Pride event held in Belgrade without homophobic attacks.

When port authorities in Singapore halted shipments of suspected hazardous waste from Albania, prosecutors traced it to the country’s sole steel producer, run by a Turkish company. Read our investigation: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/04/inv…

An estimated several thousand people marched through the centre of the Serbian capital behind a rainbow-coloured banner on Saturday as the Belgrade Pride 2024 parade went off peacefully, protected by a high-profile police presence. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/07/big…

Six years ago, Lina Vdovîi received a call from her father, a migrant worker in Italy, asking for help due to abuse at work. To document his mistreatment, Vdovîi and her partner, director Radu Ciorniciuc, equipped him with a hidden camera. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/04/unc…

OPINION | The European Union’s efforts to facilitate the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia have reached a critical juncture. Read the full opinion by Ramadan Ilazi: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/04/res…

Long the target of official harassment, the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship (MET) seems poised to lose its remaining network of schools and social-care institutions. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/05/end…

In the third of BIRN’s series about ordinary people who documented war in their own countries, two teenage film buffs capture the uncertainty, defiance and dark humour of a hardscrabble Belgrade neighbourhood as NATO bombs begin to fall. 👇 balkaninsight.com/2024/09/05/peo…

The artist and filmmaker Dusica Drazic’s father helped plant a pine forest on Serbia’s Pester Plateau during socialist Yugoslavia.  Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/09/ref…

Opinion by Tom Junes I Bulgaria’s protracted political crisis is playing into the hands of anti-reformist forces, old and new. Read the opinion: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/09/bul…

The current leadership is waging war on contemporary culture in order to ‘save’ Slovak culture. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/09/the…

🧵 The number of Czech tourists visiting Croatia dropped by 7 percent in the first seven months of the year, according to the Czech ambassador in Zagreb, Milan Hovorka. Background story:  balkaninsight.com/2023/08/23/are…

Born in 1924, Budimir Loncar fought with Tito’s Partisans, helped found the Non-Aligned Movement, served as socialist Yugoslavia’s last foreign minister and lobbied for Croatia’s recognition as an independent state, 2 former Croatian presidents told BIRN. balkaninsight.com/2024/09/09/a-g…

Turkey’s Justice Minister, Yilmaz Tunc, said on Monday the number of people detained over eight-year-old Narin Guran’s disappearance and death in Diyarbakir province, eastern Turkey, has risen to 24. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/09/09/tur…