While addressing widely-held concerns about pretrial detention measures, a bill to rewrite a big chunk of Albania’s Code of Criminal Procedure has been met with consternation among judges, prosecutors ...

Elections results show the three long-established ethnic parties continue to dominate Bosnia’s political scene; what’s less clear is how and when new governments will be formed.

A last-minute deal between two biggest Kosovo parties saw Justina Shiroka Pula become Kosovo’s President, averting the spectre of yet another election.

MPs dramatically avoid another snap parliamentary election by adopting changes to law on Kosovo Specialist Chambers and electing new President – minutes before deadline expired.

New election likely as political parties fail to agree on electing a president and protesters keep up pressure for adoption of law curbing powers of Kosovo Specialist Chambers, following its ...

Amid a major turnout fall, Milorad Dodik’s Serb nationalist party secured its dominant role in Republika Srpska while Croat candidate Darijana Filipovic looks set to become the new member of Bosnia ...

The fate of Budapest’s House of Terror, a controversial museum which focuses on life under totalitarianism in the 20th century, could spark another round of the ‘culture war’.

MPs in first reading adopt major changes to law governing the Hague-based war crimes court following conviction of former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders – although enforcement requires second vote.

Lawyers for one of 14 people targeted by Pegasus spyware file criminal complaint against Serbian intelligence agency officials, police and the Israeli company behind the surveillance technology after ...

Plavsic, who died this week, was the only high-ranking woman political leader prosecuted for mass atrocities by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. She expressed sorrow for these acts in court – but ...

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Norwegian aid worker Tommy Olsen says his trial in Greece is about discouraging others from ever coming to the aid of refugees and migrants reaching Europe’s shores.