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The lesson of the anti-EU backlash following the annulled polls in Romania last year is that election-related social media manipulation must be identified swiftly, long before polling day in Bulgaria.

For years, there has been overcrowding at Montenegro’s main psychiatric hospital, where some patients are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor, children are treated alongside adults, and ...

Parliament passes tough budget restricting public spending, as battle continues to reduce country’s concerningly high budget deficit. The Romanian Parliament in session, November 2025. Photo: ...

Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos says frontrunner Montenegro will be first country to join the bloc under new safeguards designed to ensure all new members uphold agreed democratic standards. EU ...

An open-air exhibition in Pristina commemorates the 27th anniversary of NATO’s military intervention to end the Kosovo war and the ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians. This post is also available in ...

A narrow win for Robert Golob's Freedom Movement leaves Slovenia facing complex coalition negotiations - with populist opposition leader Janez Jansa calling for new elections to ensure a stable ...

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court said it has overturned President Vjosa Osmani’s verdict to dissolve parliament and gave MPs 34 more days to try to choose a head of state and avoid new snap elections.

With Kosovo trapped in political limbo, the Constitutional Court has given MPs another month to elect a head of state – but experts doubt that extending the deadline will deliver a solution that ...

After resigning as Bosnian Serb premier for a second time on Monday, following queries over the legality of his government, Savo Minic was reappointed to his post on Tuesday night. Savo Minic speaking ...

As oil and gas prices surge amid the Iran war, Balkan countries are pondering ways to reduce the impact on households and businesses. Motorists queue at a petrol station in Skopje, North Macedonia, 9 ...

Pension fund terminates contract with Vilina Vlas spa hotel in eastern Bosnia after campaigners pointed to its previous history as a detention site where Bosniak women were raped during the 1990s war.