A group of UN human rights experts called on government to stop all forms of retaliation and intimidation against protesters, concerned over Serbia’s intensifying crackdown on students, professors, human rights defenders, civil society actors and citizens

Unrest escalated across Serbia, with ruling party supporters clashing violently with student-led protesters and trying to attack journalists, while in Valjevo demonstrators set fire to a ruling Progressive Party office and attacked City Hall

Igor Popovic, official of the Serbian government’s for Kosovo, has been handed 6 month in jail and a two-year ban from Kosovo for 'inciting ethnic hatred' as he called the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation'; he plead guilty to charges

Over 70 wildfires have been extinguished in a single week, as heatwaves intensify across the Balkans; the 2025 wildfire season is testing both the region’s emergency responses and long-term planning, coordination and political will

Police in Belgrade worked to remove roadblocks set up by protesters over the weekend, while protesters moved to reinstall them, amid continuing civil disobedience caused by anger at arrests of eight people accused of plotting to “overthrow the state”