Balkan Insight

OPINION by @fgeerdink I Emotions were palpable during the ceremony in which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, burned some of its weapons earlier this month in the mountains of Kurdistan in Iraq. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/kur…

Lawyer for wanted Israeli PR consultant Srulik Einhorn says part of his interrogation in Belgrade has been classified 'confidential' – which sources say suggest it touched on matters of Serbian national security. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/ser…

OPINION by @fgeerdink I The Turkish state must make serious changes if ‘peace’ is to mean anything more than a cessation of the 40-year armed struggle by Kurdish PKK fighters. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/kur…

The world’s bastion of press freedom is under pressure from shrinking budgets as well as interference from media tycoons and politicians. Watch the video: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/art… #media #press #pressfreedom #arteinfo #ArteWeekly

With temperatures soaring as high as 44 degrees Celsius, authorities are urging the public to be vigilant about fires and to avoid outdoor work. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/gre… Photo: EPA/ACHILLEAS CHIRAS

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday unveiled his new cabinet in a long-expected reshuffle, amid falling approval ratings and following his ally’s defeat in presidential elections. Check out our #DemocracyDigest: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/dem…

The international envoy has resolved a longstanding debt and unlocked funding for new election technologies – only to trigger attacks from all sides in divided Bosnia and Herzegovina. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/und…

Temperatures in some areas of Greece soared to 46 degrees Celsius on Friday and wildfires broke out in five regions, with firefighters are battling flames in Kilkis, Thesprotia, Ioannina, Kastoria and Ancient Olympia. balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/gre…

Long hours, low pay and confiscated passports. Albania’s treatment of migrant workers bears all the hallmarks of modern slavery, experts say. Read our investigation: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/air…

The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian detainees in Lukavac in 1992. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/sev…

MPs again failed to constitute a new parliament after February's elections, and now only have one more chance to inaugurate a legislature before the Constitutional Court tells them what to do next month. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/kos… Photo: BIRN.

With temperatures soaring as high as 44 degrees Celsius, authorities are urging the public to be vigilant about fires and to avoid outdoor work. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/gre… Photo: EPA/ACHILLEAS CHIRAS

From Kosovo’s parliamentary stalemate to Montenegro’s rocky tourism season, our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week sees several countries across the region failing to meet up to public needs. Check out our #WeekInReview: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/wee… Photo: BIRN.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday unveiled his new cabinet in a long-expected reshuffle, amid falling approval ratings and following his ally’s defeat in presidential elections.   Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/dem…

Long hours, low pay and confiscated passports. Albania’s treatment of migrant workers bears all the hallmarks of modern slavery, experts say. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/air…

The international envoy has resolved a longstanding debt and unlocked funding for new election technologies – only to trigger attacks from all sides in divided Bosnia and Herzegovina. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/25/und…

Kosovo MPs will convene on Friday for the 52nd and potentially last time to inaugurate the institution they were elected in February to represent – the country’s parliament. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/24/dea…