After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with ...

Download this e-book collection of Balkan Insight’s reports telling the story of the mass protest movement in Serbia from November 2024 to May 2025.

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground.

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Milos Pleskovic is found guilty of the murder of three Kosovo Albanians, shot dead near Prizren while out cutting firewood in September 1998.

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

The death of Petr Kellner leaves his sprawling PPF empire at a perilous time, as rapid change – driven by new ideas, shifting hierarchies and technology – threatens to challenge the immense ...

From a prison cell in Ecuador, Dritan Rexhepi coordinated a sophisticated ‘transnational crime federation’ of Albanian drug traffickers, controlling the flow of cocaine from South America to ...

Viennese researchers upset traditionally minded Albanians by pouring cold water on the theory that the Albanian language has its roots in Ancient Illyria.

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.