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.

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s shutdown of Serbia-run post offices in north of Kosovo is only one of many such operations within the last three years. Since the summer of 2021, the north has constantly topped the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Belgrade officials and policemen who took hundreds of murdered Albanians’ corpses from Kosovo to Serbia and concealed them in mass graves have never been prosecuted in their home country. This ...

Slovak civil society organisations have spent decades filling gaps left by the state. Now the state is coming for them. For years, the League for Mental Health stood among Slovakia’s most trusted ...

Enver Hoxha’s dictatorial Communist regime ruled using mass surveillance, but only now are some Albanians seeing their files and discovering that friends and relatives informed on them to the powerful ...