From mass protests and fragile peace talks to pressure on opposition parties and the jailing of journalists, Turkey had another politically troubled year. Riot police use teargas to disperse ...

Following reports of labour exploitation at the Linglong tyre factory in Zrenjanin, US Customs said it was halting all shipments of its tyres from Serbia - although the company has denied wrongdoing.

BIRN reported last year that a Chinese-run copper and gold mine in eastern Serbia has been operating without a valid permit for the disposal of the waste it creates. It still does not have one. A ...

Russian companies registered in Montenegro since the start of the war in Ukraine are mainly small and make little contribution to the state budget, raising questions about whether they are simply a ...

The ten-part series profiles women who were inspired to take positive action by the conflicts that erupted as Yugoslavia collapsed in the 1990s. Ahead of the EU-Western Balkans summit, the closure by ...

Despite political tensions sparked by high-profile corruption cases, Klodjan Braho tells BIRN that his main priority will be to guarantee Albanians that “no one is above the law”. Supporters of the ...

Amid heightened political tensions in Bulgaria, the sudden non-appearance of outspoken TV morning show hosts Maria Tsantsarova and Zlatimir Yochev drew claims that the country is going back to 'a time ...

Online fraud, particularly phishing, is on the rise in Montenegro, costing victims millions.

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

Police investigations reveal that organised crime groups often use ordinary people and passenger transport agencies to smuggle their illegal profits from EU countries and elsewhere back into Albania.

MTV is shutting down its European music video channels, which were once symbols of freedom for many young people in the Balkans and the former Eastern Bloc. Lida Hujic had a front-row seat when the ...

Internal documents show Frontex and the European Commission are well aware of Bulgaria’s dire human rights record on its border with Turkey, but the EU’s executive arm had other priorities – expanding ...