Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.

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

Police chief holds "baton-wielding" protesters responsible for Tuesday night's violence near ruling party offices in Serbian towns – but local media reports said people in front of SNS's ...

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 ...

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’.

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.

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

Milorad Dodik has only one option left to avoid jail after the confirmation of his prison sentence and ban on holding office as Republika Srpska’s president.

Media organisations say Albanian police action, surrounding the News 24 TV station building and seizing journalists' computers amid a property dispute with a government ministry, is 'heavy-handed ...

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