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The cooling of Hungary and Romania’s nuclear power plants by pumping water directly from the Danube to chill the reactors makes them particularly vulnerable to drought, unlike the plant in Slovenia.

Opposition condemns lack of transparency after Foreign Minister reveals government is working behind closed doors to solve dispute with Bulgaria and unblock EU talks.

Iliana Iotova, a long-time socialist and previously a Vice-President to Rumen Radev, confirmed she will run in October’s presidential elections, as competitors emerge.

Many factors contributed to the Hungarian government’s election defeat, including social media campaigns which misfired as public trust eroded. Yet Russian-style disinformation remains a persistent threat.

A Serbian veteran of the conflict in Ukraine tells investigators how he ended up as a hitman for a Balkan drug clan.

After the no-confidence vote concluded, calling snap elections became much easier, but many factors will determine their timing – or whether they take place at all.

After 16 years of false hope and alleged judicial missteps, Greek police have arrested two suspects and issued a warrant for a third in the case of a fatal arson attack on a bank branch in Athens in 2010. The case remains politically charged to this day.

Vetevendosje and the LDK will likely resume coalition talks following Lumir Abdixhiku’s confirmation as LDK leader – but his narrow victory has weakened his authority over his MPs, experts warn.

New report says number of war-crimes trials continues to decline, while crimes against Serbian civilians and prisoners-of-war are rarely investigated.

Elsewhere, suspected Russian missile crashes in Poland; Hungary sets up agency to recover assets stolen under Orban government; Slovak president calls for more use of Chinese tech on visit to Beijing; Czech government warns of rising online youth radicalisation.

Donald Trump’s second term has coincided with a significant increase in lobbying efforts by Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity, resulting, it seems, in the lifting of US sanctions on Milorad Dodik and his family and allies.

Launched on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, a billboard campaign in New York marked the latest attempt by Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to promote an alternative, highly-selective narrative of what went on in the Bosnian war.

Arrest of unnamed suspects relates to ongoing excavation of suspected mass grave near Zubin Potok – which some believes may contain remains of 23 Kosovo Albanians abducted in 1999.

Record-low water levels in the river – blamed on climate change and historic mismanagement – are affecting agriculture, shipping and energy production.

Experts warn major alterations in media ownership could test country’s democratic resilience and spread disinformation at crucial moment, as EU membership looms.

Nearly three decades after fighting ended, Kosovo has compiled a list of dead and missing from the 1998-99 war, though it still does not distinguish between civilians and combatants or specify ethnicity.

Former guerrilla turned politician Sami Lushtaku is cleared of obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses in his trial for war crimes – of which he was cleared in 2017.

Retrial upholds ten-year sentence for ethnic Gorani ex-police officer who assaulted ethnic Albanian prisoners during the Kosovo war, one of whom died.

As drought intensifies, water management and retention have become critical for the landlocked countries of Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia. Yet their governments have largely come up dry on solutions.

The Trump administration is now making it clear that it sees the Balkans as a field to pursue its commercial, energy and defence-related interests – and not ‘democracy-building’.

Since end-May, anti-government protests in Albania have evolved into the largest civil mobilisation since the fall of the dictatorial regime in the early 1990s. With traditional media largely silent, the digital space has become both a refuge for protest and a testing ground for …

The biggest rupture on the Polish right in many years could sharply reduce PiS’s chances of returning to power in next year’s parliamentary election.

Ozgur Ozel's New Party becomes main opposition party in Turkey's parliament after 91 MPs quit People's Republican Party, CHP, to join him.

Prime Minister Edi Rama has blamed social media algorithms for fuelling the so-called Flamingo Revolution protests, but data obtained by BIRN shows that hundreds of fake accounts have been created to push the government’s own narrative and denigrate the protesters.

Elsewhere, Hungary’s chief prosecutor resigns amid mounting pressure from new government; President Nawrocki vetoes civil partnerships in Poland; political rift deepens as Czech president overrules government’s budget amendment.