After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Download this e-book collection of Balkan Insight’s reports telling the story of the mass protest movement in Serbia from November 2024 to May 2025.

As Albanian websites spread falsehoods to discredit women in the media, a culture of silence and weak legal protections leave women journalists increasingly vulnerable.

This network encompasses populist politicians and parties, media outlets, and think tanks, which propagate Viktor Orban’s illiberal narratives in a bid to plant them in the public consciousness ...

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

After the PKK began to disarm this month, Turkey said a ‘critical threshold’ had been crossed following decades of conflict. Those most affected by the fighting are still to be convinced, amid ...

As it takes up the EU’s rolling presidency from July, Denmark is determined to ramp up the draconian Article 7 sanctioning procedure against Hungary. Yet, with a crucial general election set for ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Millions of euros in EU subsidies were paid out to Greeks who fraudulently declared pastureland, but while state complicity is clear, the government looks unlikely to fall.

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

As heatwaves intensify across the Balkans, the 2025 wildfire season is not merely testing the region’s emergency responses but long-term planning, coordination and political will.