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Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. The March for Palestine in Zagreb on Sunday. Photo: Facebook/H-alter.

The opposition’s strong showing in two bellwether local polls – against stiff odds – suggest support for the ruling party is crumbling away.

Then again, no one in the Hungarian government has bothered to consult with these ethnic Hungarians on the issue. On June 20, a national poll in Hungary on whether Ukraine should be allowed to ...

Nicusor Dan had barely got his feet under the presidential desk when he began the search for a coalition government ready to rein in Romania’s ballooning deficit. Nicusor Dan had a warning for ...

A Turkish lawyer who fled to Greece in 2020 has been on hunger strike for 29 days now, protesting against Greece's decision to cancel his political asylum status. Gunay Dag on May 31, 2025, in ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with Milos Pavlovic. Photo: Instagram/buducnostsrbije. Three out of 18 people suspected of involvement in an attack on Milos Pavlovic, the high-profile leader of ...

In Sarajevo’s old town, local guides find navigating the dense network of old streets a lot easier than charting a path through an even denser tangle of overlapping laws. While Bosnia’s ...

Hungary is close to reaching its goal of sending a Hungarian research astronaut into space, but the government has much loftier ambitions for its space program. The 33-year-old Tibor Kapu is ...

The rural municipality of Kosjeric, near Serbia’s western border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, consists of a small town, a cluster of villages and roughly 10,000 people. Beyond a local cement ...

Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic. This post is also ...