After a week of women’s protests that show no sign of letting up, the governing party’s poll numbers are dropping as its leaders scramble out mixed messages about the anti-abortion court ruling they were responsible for.

By combining presidential, parliamentary and local elections in 2022, President Aleksandar Vucic is trying to stop the opposition from taking Belgrade as a springboard to unseat him. But can he be stopped? President Aleksandar Vucic, whose Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, won Serbia’s parliamentary election in June, has already scheduled new …

A Bulgarian startup has found remote work in the AI industry for hundreds of refugees in the Balkans and the Middle East. Two years into the Syrian war, in 2013, Shyar Ali fled his native Aleppo, ending up in a refugee camp in Iraq where he worked as a labourer …