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

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

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.

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 ...

Kosovo’s former president gave a rare interview from detention, saying he does not regret helping to establish the Hague court that is now trying him for war crimes.

The main opposition CHP remains defiant as its mayors are detained for alleged corruption and party leader Ozgur Ozel faces legal challenges over his tough stance against Turkish president Recep ...

Lida Hujic, a popular youth presenter during the golden era of Radio Television Sarajevo in the late 1980s, recalls the rebellious past of a public broadcaster which today, as BHRT, faces an ...

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.