Balkan Insight
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BIRN, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, was established in 2004 as a network of non-governmental organizations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe. Follow this blog to get news covering politics, society, and business in Balkan region.
Balkan Insight
17h ago
Transgender, non-binary and gender-variant individuals in Serbia say they face discrimination in the job market, involving frequent insulting and inappropriate remarks ..read more
Balkan Insight
17h ago
School students in Verona working with an NGO have created a new phone-charging station model to support migrants and refugees cross the Balkans on their way to the EU ..read more
Balkan Insight
17h ago
The head of the Kosovo government’s Missing Persons Commission said the EU’s foreign policy chief hasn’t replied to concerns about last year’s declaration with Serbia on finding missing persons from the 1998-99 war, which isn’t being implemented yet ..read more
Balkan Insight
23h ago
Chisinau authorities slate secessionist regime's plan to erect another 'peacekeeping post' in the buffer zone between them, calling it a 'useless manoeuvre ..read more
Balkan Insight
23h ago
Ageing former president faces fresh questions over bloody events in 1990, when miners were used to brutally crush protests by students and liberals in Bucharest ..read more
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1d ago
Elsewhere, Polish prosecutors to also investigate Pegasus use; former Czech MP’s rape sentence confirmed; and a black day for Slovak public broadcaster RTVS ..read more
Balkan Insight
1d ago
Serbia’s main opposition coalition has fallen apart because its members could not agree on whether to go to the polls in June – and the risk is that they will now win far fewer votes ..read more
Balkan Insight
2d ago
A string of elections, parliamentary committees and arbitration processes pose tough choices for those entangled as well as opening the question of motives driving developments, yet not all is bleak in the Balkans ..read more
Balkan Insight
2d ago
After a marathon legal process, former Kosovo Liberation Army commander and ex-diplomat Sylejman Selimi and another ex-guerrilla were cleared of one of the war crimes charges against them ..read more
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2d ago
Victims' families, lawyers and the opposition welcomed the sentences pronounced on nine people for a deadly 2018 train accident – but also demanded further investigations into senior officials ..read more