Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

President Nicusor Dan on Friday designated Ilie Bolojan, leader of the National Liberal Party, PNL, as Romania’s next prime minister. The announcement ended nearly a month of negotiations ...

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Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic.

On March 12, employees of Ukrainian House (Ukrainski Dom), the main NGO representing Ukrainians in Poland, received a bizarre email. The municipality of Bydgoszcz, in northern Poland, was writing ...

Omladinski Program staff Darko Skert, Neven Andelic, Marko Milovic and Senad Zaimovic. Photo by Milomir Kovacevic, courtesy of Lida Hujic. Made in Sarajevo: When Bosnia’s Public Broadcaster was ...

Journalists' union condemns decision to reduce funding for the weekly Novosti as a dangerous concession to the government's far-right partner and a "blow to the entire journalistic community".

In 1995, a car bomb rocked the capital of then newly-independent Macedonia. The target – the first democratically elected president, Kiro Gligorov, who narrowly survived. To this day, no one can ...

Silent Spying: How Serbian Intelligence Hacks Activists’ Phones – Without Them Knowing Aleksa Tesic Belgrade BIRN December 16, 202417:16 Aleksa Tesic Belgrade BIRN December 16, 202417:16 ...

North Macedonia is tired of encountering obstacles on its path to EU membership and will no longer accept ultimatums, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told media during a visit to Brussels.