BIRN

Greek police arrested six individuals connected to allegations of fixing basketball matches. The arrested include the president of the Hellenic Basketball Federation, referees and others.

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After deploying his heavy machinery to protect Serbia’s presidency building from anti-government protesters, Mile Samardzija secured a 1.1 million-euro contract with a company part-owned by the state.

A decade of declarations and commitments on good neighbourly relations have not prevented bilateral issues from impeding EU enlargement in the Balkans. A new solution must be found.

Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party is facing anti-establishment sentiments and demographic pressure on its ageing nationalist base in this weekend’s elections – similar to the dynamics that ousted Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary.

Romania's state arms industry is supposed to help defend NATO's eastern flank. Instead, politically connected and corrupt managers, wasted funds, and poor security have left several of its factories barely functioning.

While a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 13 people to a combined total of more than 180 years in prison for the killing of Bosniak civilians in two villages during the 1992-95 war, the acquittal of two others by a court in Belgrade has raised further doubts about the merit of transferring war crimes cases from Sarajevo to Belgrade.

Four days before parliamentary elections, Serbian police arrested at least seven individuals suspected of planning violent actions on election day and plotting to ‘overthrow the state’.

A wave of student protests have swept Albania over the last week and escalated into clashes with police. BIRN spoke with some of the protesters to hear what brought them into the streets.

Bedri Hamza, the leader of PDK, Kosovo’s largest opposition party, announced his resignation on Wednesday, opening the way for the party to select a new leader.

Kosovo Serb Milorad Djokovic was sentenced by a Pristina court to 10 years in prison for war crimes related killings and beatings of civilians during a Serbian military assault on a village in 1999.