Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

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

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.

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’.

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.

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Milorad Dodik has only one option left to avoid jail after the confirmation of his prison sentence and ban on holding office as Republika Srpska’s president.

Media organisations say Albanian police action, surrounding the News 24 TV station building and seizing journalists' computers amid a property dispute with a government ministry, is 'heavy-handed ...