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.

As Albanian websites spread falsehoods to discredit women in the media, a culture of silence and weak legal protections leave women journalists increasingly vulnerable.

We Continue the Change is facing unprecedented challenges as key figures are targeted by institutions – potentially leaving pro-Russian nationalists as the only ‘opposition’ left in Bulgaria.

After the PKK began to disarm this month, Turkey said a ‘critical threshold’ had been crossed following decades of conflict. Those most affected by the fighting are still to be convinced, amid ...

As it takes up the EU’s rolling presidency from July, Denmark is determined to ramp up the draconian Article 7 sanctioning procedure against Hungary. Yet, with a crucial general election set for ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Tensions between Greece and Libya have a direct effect on the flow of refugees and migrants arriving on the shores of the island of Crete, in turn pushing Athens to adopt ever more repressive ...

As heatwaves intensify across the Balkans, the 2025 wildfire season is not merely testing the region’s emergency responses but long-term planning, coordination and political will.

Millions of euros in EU subsidies were paid out to Greeks who fraudulently declared pastureland, but while state complicity is clear, the government looks unlikely to fall.

The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian ...

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 ...