The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

Media organisations say Albanian police action, surrounding the News 24 TV station building and seizing journalists' computers amid a property dispute with a government ministry, is 'heavy-handed ...

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Fans throughout former Yugoslavia are mourning the passing of one of the most recognisable names of the Yugoslav music scene – whose singing career began in the 1950s.

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Greece is battling escalating wildfires as relentless hot weather and dozens of new blazes test the limits of its firefighting forces.

As this year’s Sziget Festival comes to a close on Monday, it appears that chanting anti-government slogans has become the norm at Hungary’s summer festivals.

Bulgaria’s political chaos has created a media vacuum in which Kremlin-led narratives metastasize – and the solution is not a new EU media law but better enforcement of existing rules.

The enduring impact of a livestreamed femicide in Bosnia in 2023 highlights the threat of vicarious trauma via social media.

North Macedonia’s public prosecutor Lence Ristoska speaks out after the government abruptly annulled her candidacy for the European Court of Human Rights without explanation, raising concerns ...