MPs meet members of an initiative that has collected 1.2 million signtaures, including 65,000 from Croatia, demanding safe and accsssible abortion rights for all women in the EU. Members of the My ...

New Ombudsman elected solely with the votes of the ruling majority – a break in tradition – after opposition MPS refused to participate in the vote. Socialist Party MPs during Shabani’s vote. Photo: ...

Elsewhere, legislative chaos as Slovak government rams through laws and president wields veto; yet another scandal in Hungary exposes government’s hollow ‘child-friendly’ narrative; and Poland invited ...

The draft bill – twice amended but still widely criticised – was approved by all 78 MPs from the coalition after the ruling parties abruptly curtailed a debate that had been dominated by the ...

The Bosnian state court confirmed the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a post-war Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, clearing him of taking part in wartime attacks that killed several ...

Tens of thousands filled the streets of Bulgaria’s biggest towns to protest against the current government, the proposed state budget and the lack of long overdue political lustration Huge crowds took ...

President and prime minister voice indignation over far-right attack on Serbian folk dance and choir in the city of Split – as opposition insists the government bears responsibility for growing ...

Country's top court rules in favour of ousted Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj regarding his dismissal – also cancelling fresh elections for a replacement for Veliaj, who is facing corruption charges. Tirana ...

Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes ...

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

James Rubin, the first defence witness, told the court that Hashim Thaci's trial 'felt like collective blame' for the Kosovo Liberation Army, which did not have a proper command structure, and in ...