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A crucial election in Serbia, escalating protests in Albania, bilateral disputes in the region and the costs of political deadlock in Kosovo. As BIRN's selection of Premium stories shows, the next days, weeks and months could be pivotal for many countries across the region.

Occupation, displacement and war crimes: according to the UN, radical Israelis in the West Bank are violating international law.

Following the war crimes convictions of former KLA leaders in The Hague, Kosovo’s assembly passed a bill attempting to curb the court’s powers. The bill now returns to the assembly for reconsideration.

A commercial vessel has sunk in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania, after reportedly being hit by a drone.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party faces its strongest challenge since it came to power and the student movement seeks to turn nearly two years of anti-government protests into electoral victory.

Elsewhere, former chief of Hungary’s central bank detained on suspicion of economic fraud; Polish abortion reform clears first hurdle but faces presidential veto; and Slovak president blocks far-right nominee for environment minister.

Poor judicial cooperation between Montenegro and Croatia leave crimes at two wartime Yugoslav detention centres unresolved – and could threaten Montenegro's EU accession progress.

Acting President Iliana Iotova and Prime Minister Rumen Radev look primed to solidify the ruling party Progressive Bulgaria’s grip on power amid declining public trust, security criticisms and low voter turnout.

At the opening of the Berlin Process summit in Montenegro on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Montenegro could join the EU by 2028, and he urged regional cooperation.

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…

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.

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.

Ahead of Serbia’s high-stakes snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, citizens abroad are organising shared transport and accommodation to reach polling stations, sometimes thousands of kilometres away.

Russia remains ready to aid its Balkan allies in their electoral endeavours and sabotage EU and NATO membership prospects, as Vladimir Putin’s recent efforts to boost Milorad Dodik and Aleksandar Vucic’s campaigns showed.

The prime minister says he doesn’t believe in Nato solidarity, even as Slovakia relies on its partners for military protection and continues its alliance commitments. So why is he using such damaging rhetoric?

Romanian lawmakers have voted in favour of a new government led by the politically independent Luca Niculescu, ending five months of political crisis.

With the adoption of constitutional changes to enhance integrity checks on high-level government officials, Montenegro comes a step closer to fulfilling EU accession requirements.

Edi Rama described some of the student protesters involved in unrest in Tirana as extremists who have been manipulated by foreign powers, causing critics to warn that such harsh rhetoric may further inflame tensions.

Washington’s lifting of sanctions on the Bosnian Serb leader left him free to pursue closer ties to Russia without restrictions – effectively giving Moscow veto powers over Bosnia and Herzegovina’s future.

Kosovo is failing to access hundreds of millions in EU funding after two years of political wrangling left Brussels-mandated reforms on hold.