MAN Truck & Bus said it had stopped taking tyres from Chinese Linglong’s Serbian plant last month after reports alleging the exploitation and possible trafficking of Vietnamese and Indian workers, but ...

MPs meet members of an initiative that has collected 1.2 million signtaures, including 65,000 from Croatia, demanding safe and accsssible abortion rights for all women in the EU. Members of the My ...

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 ...

Elsewhere, legislative chaos as Slovak government rams through laws and president wields veto; yet another scandal in Hungary exposes government’s hollow ‘child-friendly’ narrative; and Poland invited ...

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 ...

Efforts to provide teachers and books in the Roma language culminated last year with the opening of a library of Roma-language books in Prizren – and interest in it has grown ever since. Arzu Cukici ...

More and more women are joining Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, but while they can now take on the same roles as men, the challenges they face are very different. Since Russia’s ...

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 ...

An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for ...

Babies born to Kosovo Albanian women raped by Serbian forces during wartime have been kept secret, given up for adoption or raised in orphanages - and the few mothers who agreed to talk anonymously ...

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 ...

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.