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

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.

Elsewhere, Polish president bumps PM off call that Trump held with European leaders; billion-euro tender to reshape Slovakia’s ambulance network collapses in acrimony; China cuts all ties with ...

Chris Leslie’s new documentary film – about the neglected Yugoslav Partisan cemetery in Mostar – explores a place where the ideological battles of 1940s Yugoslavia are still being fought.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The Albanian police’s action – forcing the country’s largest news broadcaster off air without a court order – sets an alarming precedent.

An oral history of wartime rape survivors seeks to tell their ‘collective history’ before, during and after the 1998-99 war in Kosovo.