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.

Opposition MPs hurled bottles and clashed with guards as the new ruling party-backed Ombudsman took his oath amid heightened tensions sparked by high-level graft cases. Albanian opposition MPs protest ...

Indictment accuses Culture Minister and others of unlawfully removing cultural heritage status from the old military HQ in Belgrade, reportedly to allow a company linked to Jared Kushner to redevelop ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nightclub fire claiming 63 lives, the biggest tragedy in the country’s recent history, became a major national trauma and triggered protests against deep-seated systemic corruption. The ten-part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, Serbia has imported more than 20 IMSI catchers, capable of indiscriminately harvesting communications from all mobile phones within a certain area. Experts say their use is not ...

A joint investigation by BIRN and Haaretz has identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba this year that coincided with Serbian arms exports to Israel worth 15.7 million euros, ...

Albania’s communist regime outlawed religion and waged a decades-long campaign of repression against Christian and Muslim believers, jailing and executing clerics and persecuting their families - but ...