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Balkan Insight
Balkan Insight is the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network’s (BIRN) flagship English-language website and it provides daily news, as well as analytical insight and investigations, on key issues in these countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine. The website has built a reputation as one of the most comprehensive, professional and independent sources of news in English in Southern and Eastern Europe, and has become the news source of choice for policy-makers, corporate management and academic researchers around the world.
ERSTE Foundation is BIRN’s partner in the jointly developed Reporting Democracy platform, which has been hosted on Balkan Insight since 2019. ERSTE Foundation has been a partner of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence since 2007, which has been continued as a Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence as part of Reporting Democracy since 2019.
Published articles
Hungary: A nation of “haves” and “have nots”
A housing crisis will be the challenge for Hungary's next generation.
The teenage refugee’s post-pandemic survival guide
You are one of thousands of teenage asylum-seekers in Greece, growing up in the shadow of coronavirus. These are your options.
Moldova: pandemic brinkmanship
An investigation about the ways in which pandemic brings strife to the 'security zone'
Moldova faces ‘existential’ population crisis.
With the worst demographic decline in Europe, Moldova is struggling to remain a ‘viable state’, says its foreign minister.
Bulgaria’s demographic turnaround?
Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline, observes Tim Judah.
Roma faces brunt
The demographic crises at the Western Balkans has huge impact on marginalised Roma communities.
Albania’s ‘demographic dividend’
Albania’s population is still comparatively young and the number of its elderly relatively low —but that could change fast
Kosovo’s demographic destiny
Europe’s youngest state is not immune to the ageing and depopulation hollowing out societies across the Balkans.
“The future of Roma people is education.”
Roma children are facing growing segregation in Slovak schools - more than in any other European country.
‘Energy independence’ for Croatia
Critics turn up eat on a plan to build a liquid natural gas platform.
Blind justice for Romania’s trafficked Roma children
After almost a decade, why has no one been convicted in the case against one of Europe’s largest child trafficking rings?