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

Recent remarks from Greece’s prime minister suggest the government is ready to embrace nuclear power, amid signs of a shift in the public mood.

It remains unclear why war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia have never investigated Bosnian Croat lawmaker Dragan Konta, despite a 2017 court ruling identifying him as the military police commander at ...

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France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

The owners of the biggest broadcasters in Albania have all benefitted from ‘strategic investor’ status granted by the government for other projects, raising doubts about editorial independence.

On October 8, 2024, a Bulgarian company contacted a US arms firm called Regulus Global with an offer to supply 122,000 tons of Chinese TNT explosives, worth almost a billion dollars.

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

For a fifth night in a row, protests in Serbia were marked by clashes between demonstrators and police – with each side accusing the other of provoking conflict.

If Serbia is serious about its European path, it must offers the Russians in its midst a real welcome.

Batkovic was one of the most infamous Serb-run camps in Bosnia but few of those responsible for crimes there faced trial – and no memorial to the victims at the site has ever been permitted by ...

Greece is battling escalating wildfires as relentless hot weather and dozens of new blazes test the limits of its firefighting forces.