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 ...

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 ...

Though rakija exports are up, registered production is still dwarfed by small-scale, front-yard distillation for personal consumption. The threat of regulation, however, lurks on the horizon. Predrag, ...

President Vucic said Kushner’s withdrawal from Belgrade project was a massive blow – and added that opponents of the project would ‘be held accountable’ for deliberately undermining Serbia. People ...

Authorities pledge to check claims made in a TV documentary, alleging corruption and undue influence in the justice system. The judge’s gavel of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) lies on the ...

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 ...

Mark Rutte said any Ukraine peace deal must not be a re-run of the 2015 agreement, which merely paved the way for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inclusion of women’s right to abortion in France’s constitution is significant and welcome – but it’s not quite the ‘pioneering’ move it’s being called. The recent decision of the French ...

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...