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New Hungarian PM Opens Orban’s Office to the Public
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Kina · 18. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Playing tour guide over the weekend to various buildings renovated using billions in taxpayer money, Magyar said his government will keep the building previously used as the Prime Minister’s Office open to the public.

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Kosovo Businessmen Loses Lawsuit Against BIRN Over Solar Energy Investigation
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Businessman Blerim Devolli’s defamation lawsuit against BIRN Kosovo over a 2020 investigation revealing shell companies set up to profit from solar energy is dismissed after he fails to appear in court.

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Belgrade Police Chief Arrested in Missing Person Case, Prosecutor Says
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Belgrade prosecution says police chief Veselin Milic has been detained for 48 hours over missing person and alleged shooting at restaurant – as Serbia's Interior Ministry says he is 'no longer head' of the capital's police.

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Week in Review: Good Vibrations and Political Earthquakes
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

While the prize of EU membership is coming within grasping distance for Montenegro, our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights the uncertainties facing other countries in the region.

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Belgrade Police Chief Arrested in Missing Person Case
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Police chief Veselin Milic detained for 48 hours over missing person and alleged shooting at restaurant – as Serbia's Interior Ministry says he is 'no longer head' of the capital's police.

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‘Bruises All Over’: Experts Document ‘Punitive’ Police Violence in Serbia
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Extensive injuries sustained in a police crackdown on anti-government protesters in the western Serbian town of Valjevo in August last year show the use of force was often ‘punitive’ rather than an immediate response to danger, according to a report compiled by forensic medicine …

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North Macedonia Bar Exam Protest Revives Albanian Language Debate
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Albanian law students from North Macedonia say they should be allowed to take the bar exam in their mother tongue. The dispute speaks to a broader problem of unfulfilled language rights.

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Romania Risks Becoming a Car No One Wants to Drive
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Globalno · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The crisis in Romania is not the government’s fall – but the creation of a dangerous governance vacuum that no mainstream parties seem willing to fill.

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Democracy Digest: Former Polish Justice Minister’s Escape Route Leads to Washington
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 15. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Elsewhere, Magyar sworn in as new Hungarian PM and holds first cabinet meeting; Trump ally tipped as new US ambassador to Slovakia; Czech president and PM still at odds over who should attend NATO summit in Ankara.

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UN Court Rejects Release Request for ‘Deteriorating’ Ratko Mladic
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Bosnian Serb wartime military chief Ratko Mladic’s plea for release on humanitarian grounds due to his deteriorating health was rejected on the grounds that he is getting high-quality medical care in detention.

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Kosovo Ruling Party Accuses Mayor of ‘Brutally’ Assaulting Deputy Minister
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Weeks before snap elections in Kosovo, a claim that the Mayor of Skenderaj attacked a senior official of the ruling Vetevendosje party in the town centre raises tensions.

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Driver Faces Attempted Murder Charge After Car Hits Man at Serbian Protest
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

A driver accused of reversing into an elderly man at a commemorative protest vigil in central Belgrade has been held on suspicion of aggravated attempted murder.

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Croatia Receives Remains of 500 Post-WWII Victims from Slovenia
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Remains of fleeing Croat fighters and civilians executed by Yugoslav Partisans at close of World War II were handed over in the first such transfer between Croatia and Slovenia.

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Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Suspicions Linger in Dropped Albania Smuggling Case
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Prosecutors dropped a probe into the alleged smuggling of Russian oil through an Albanian port in 2023, but behind the vessel in question lies a network of individuals and companies linked by Ukrainian intelligence agents to an alleged ‘shadow fleet’ used by Russia to bypass sanc…

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Divide and Rule: Turkey’s Ruling Party Uses Opposition Defections to Expand Reach
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 14. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The opposition sees the desertion of some of its mayors and councillors to join Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP as part of a government strategy aimed at weakening local resistance and consolidating power.

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NATO’s Eastern, Nordic Allies Pledge Stronger Defence Cooperation
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Meeting in Romania ahead of the July's NATO summit in Ankara, 14 member countries called for closer coordination on regional security along the alliance's eastern flank to counter the continuing threat from Russia.

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Bulgaria Ends State-Funded Protection for Ex-PM and Sanctioned Oligarch
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Kina · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Security Agency cuts off funded security for political heavyweights Delyan Peevski and Boyko Borissov – as some question whether they were entitled to such services in the first place.

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Letter from Brussels: May is the Month for Montenegro
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The EU feels a spring in its step as it readies to accept its first new member since 2013 – a decision of enormous symbolic weight, which will also set important precedents.

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Bidding for Comeback, Kosovo’s Opposition LDK Bets on Ex-President Osmani
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 13. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Abandoned by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Kosovo's ex-President Vjosa Osmani has returned to the opposition party she left six years ago. But will the rapprochement help or hinder the LDK come elections in June?

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Kosovo Special Court Rejects ‘Misleading’ Rights Violations Claims
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers said a review commissioned by the Kosovo Ombudsperson does not establish that the rights of defendants at the Hague-based war crimes court were violated, contrary to media reports.

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Report Slams Secretive, Prisonlike Conditions in Bosnia’s Migrant Centre
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

New report says Bosnia’s only centre for the detention of migrants and refugees operates without clear oversight and transparency and in violation of international standards, especially concerning the detention of minors.

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Bulgaria, Poland Among EU States Accused of Selling Spy Tech to Autocracies
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Europa · 12. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

In a report, HRW urges the EU Commission to strengthen due diligence and transparency rules after finding surveillance tech produced by EU companies is being exported to states with poor human rights records.

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Bulgaria Mulls Targeting Price Hikes With Fines and ‘Fair Price’ Rule
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Globalno · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Rumen Radev's new government pledges to tackle soaring prices by forcing large retailers to prove sudden rises are economically justified – not rooted in speculation.

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Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Five in Village Attack
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

Court sentences Dusko Zoric to 15 years in prison for involvement in a Bosnian Serb Army assault that killed several civilians in Zecovi near Prijedor in July 1992.

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Justice in the Dock: The Kosovo Specialist Chambers and a Crisis of Legitimacy
Balkan · Balkan Insight · Balkan · 11. svibnja 2026. · Vijesti

As the verdict in the case against Hashim Thaci and his co-defendants at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers approaches, a difficult question comes into focus: what is achieved when justice is delivered in a form that the affected society largely rejects?

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