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Greek parliament lifts immunity of 13 MPs accused of involvement in EU agriculture funds scandal following a request by the European Public Prosecutor's Office.

After elections heralded a change of power, controversial senior prosecutor Borislav Sarafov is stepping down, with the new parliament likely to seek an overhaul of the Supreme Justice Council as part of justice reforms.

Revelations from the US about an alleged Iran-linked hacker group’s attempt to sell Albanians’ personal data have raised more questions about cyber defences in the Balkan country after a series of attacks on state systems.

The convincing victory of Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria alliance should offer the opportunity for stable government after years of turmoil - but little is known about which political direction it will take.

In Brussels, Rumen Radev’s landslide win in Bulgaria’s parliamentary election has fuelled fears that Russia will have a new ally inside the European Union. At home, however, hopes are rising of an alliance with reformists to overhaul the much-maligned judiciary.

Moscow has lost its main ally inside the EU with the defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Can the victory of Bulgaria’s Rumen Radev provide the Kremlin with a new disruptor for the European bloc?

How ruthless or pragmatic will Hungary’s incoming prime minister be? We may get more of an idea this week when he meets with the pro-Orban leader of Romania’s ethnic Hungarian political party.

Montenegro’s plan to commemorate victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac has drawn sharp criticism from Croatia, reigniting tensions between the neighbours and risking a setback in recently improving relations.

The Social Democratic Party, the leading party in Romania’s governing coalition, announced its decision to withdraw support for Liberal Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan - a move expected to trigger political instability.

A meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and opposition leader Lumir Abdixhiku to agree on who should become the next head of state ended without results, raising concerns about snap elections.

Bosnian state court upholds verdict acquitting Andrija Bjelosevic, a wartime security chief in the town of Derventa, of raping a Bosniak woman multiple times.

Fifteen years after it committed to do so, Serbia has yet to give Kosovo scanned copies of the cadastral records it seized at the end of the 1998-99 war, leaving thousands of property disputes unresolved.

Same-sex couples in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting for legal security in the event of sickness, unemployment, bereavement and parenthood.

Former President Rumen Radev is on course for a landslide win with his freshly formed Progressive Bulgaria party, vowing to tackle poverty and oligarchic power - but raising questions with his "pragmatic" stance on Russia.

New legal amendments allowing ‘strategic investors’ to develop port facilities at tourist resorts without competitive tenders represent the latest custom-written legislation brought in by Edi Rama’s government to benefit big business, critics claim.

European public service broadcasters are under growing political and financial pressure, while also having to contend with fake news and propaganda.

A momentous election spells change not just for Hungary but also for much of the Western Balkans, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights.

The Progressive Bulgaria party of former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is poised to win big in the EU member state’s eighth general election since 2021, stirring fears of a tilt towards Russia in the style of Viktor Orban.

Elsewhere, the political shift in Hungary ripples across region; defence industrialist Strnad eyes Slovak TV station Markiza; Czech government unveils controversial public media reforms.

Pristina Basic Court hands down a detention order for Kosovo Serb Dejan Pelevic, suspected of war crimes in Skenderaj/Srbica that left 15 dead and 16 missing in 1999.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban sat at the centre of a network of illiberal states. With his loss in weekend elections, liberal opposition parties in Turkey are reflecting on political parallels and hope.

Evidence presented at multiple war crimes trials point to the deep involvement of two Bosnian Serb men in the persecution and murder of Bosniaks in the Kalinovik region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Neither has ever been charged and Serbia, where they live, has refused to pu…

EU politicians celebrate spring in Hungary and prospects for Ukraine improve, but Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic contemplates a lonelier future without Budapest’s architect of ‘illiberal democracy’ at his side.

In appearing to call time on Nikola Gruevski’s refuge in Hungary, election-winner Peter Magyar has put North Macedonia’s government in a tight spot.

Turkey experiences a second school shooting in two days after a teenage student’s attack leaves 20 wounded and two students and a teacher dead, as well as the shooter himself.