Getting rid of the Orban-appointed president was a big victory for Hungary’s new government, but the rushed attempt to nominate chess legend Judit Polgar as his successor is its first major blunder.

Prime Minister Rumen Radev says parliament will likely approve US military aircraft using Bezmer airfield in central Bulgaria for refuelling purposes - after previously criticising the presence of US ...

Parliamentary resolution supporting separate electoral unit for Bosnian Croats causes controversy but is seen as largely symbolic and driven mainly by domestic coalition politics. The first session of ...

BIRN looks inside the ‘wild west’ of private healthcare in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where even licencing rules are flouted. The air-conditioned premises of the Medical Art Centre in Ljubuski, southern ...

Former AC Milan and Croatia defender is suspected of illegally obtaining permits to operate a campsite business with the aid of a former head of a county tourism department. Dario Simic at a press ...

New World Wide Fund for Nature report says strict legal protections are failing to reverse the decline of the famous caviar-producing fish in the Lower Danube region covering Bulgaria, Romania and ...

Kosovo’s Kurti is preaching compromise in the search for a deal on the country’s next president, but his task is complicated by the turmoil inside the opposition LDK. The prospect of being punished by ...

Tamas Sulyok now faces a stark choice: either he signs his own dismissal within five days or faces impeachment. Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok delivers a speech during the inaugural session of the ...

As Albania and Montenegro surge ahead, the EU is split on whether to move Serbia forward on the path to accession in the absence of tangible progress. Europe, and its capital in particular, has been ...

After years of record growth, rising prices, labour shortages and a failure to attract higher-spending visitors are exposing the weaknesses of Croatia’s tourism model. In early July, Croatia’s ...

Ten more victims of the 1995 genocide were buried on Saturday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, with survivors calling on the perpetrators to acknowledge the truth and ask for forgiveness. This post ...