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The Hungarian government is likely trying to curry favour with Poland’s PiS party by granting asylum to former government figures facing trial at home. But a change of government in…
Looming cuts to a vital healthcare programme threaten the lives of some of the country’s most vulnerable people, Vesna Aleksovska, head of the Association of Citizens with Rare Diseases, tells…
In 2017 the opposition VMRO DPMNE party accused the then ruling Social Democrats of secret plans to take in Middle Eastern migrants. These turned out to be unfounded. Now the…
As 2026 begins, we look back on some of the most important investigations published by BIRN in its 20th anniversary year – from brutal migrant-smuggling gangs and arms deals with…
The recently-passed Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act shows that some US lawmakers still care about the region. But it doesn’t mean that Donald Trump is going to tell Aleksandar…
A nightclub fire claiming 63 lives, the biggest tragedy in the country’s recent history, became a major national trauma and triggered protests against deep-seated systemic corruption. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Our selection of Premium stories this week brings a note of optimism that some long-standing problems and deadlocks could be resolved in the near future, tempered with an inevitable dose…
Predictable dangers are often ignored and systemic gaps in services leave victims of gender-based violence without the protection they need, campaigner Ana Avramovska-Nushkova tells BIRN. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Lawyer Adem Chuchulj faces a fight to restore the credibility of North Macedonia’s State Anti-Corruption Commission. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight