Migrant workers from Africa have told BIRN about having to surrender their passports on arrival in Albania, working unpaid overtime and facing deportation once they are no longer required. Many are ...

Months after US sanctions took effect on Serbian Oil Industry, NIS, as one of Gazprom Neft’s subsidiaries, Hungary’s MOL says it will buy the majority of shares in the company. The NIS company logo is ...

Rights organisations hail acquittal of 24 humanitarian workers who took part in migrant rescue operations in Greece, slating the trial as ‘an attempt to criminalise solidarity and demonise ...

Far-right demonstrators in Bucharest shouted slogans against a law that has tightened the penalties on supporters of fascist and racist movements – even though its implementation has been patchy. Riot ...

Three years after the Belgrade Court of Appeal acquitted four Serbian security operatives of the murder in 1999 of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija, the Supreme Court said that the verdict ...

New draft law aims to drastically tighten restrictions on smoking, and on advertising nicotine products, amid stubbornly high consumption rates. A woman smokes a cigarette in Skopje. Photo: EPA/GEORGI ...

BIRN's monitoring of digital rights violations in August and September highlighted a threatening Hungarian ‘dark web’ site that contained illegally obtained images of women, plus a series of arrests ...

Despite the January 9 celebrations being ruled unconstitutional, the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, again marked the day with a mass parade in Banja Luka. Several thousand people gathered on ...

Experts say more proactive approaches may be needed to deal with ongoing wave of emailed bomb alerts that are highly disruptive – but difficult to trace. Hoax bomb threats, mostly sent by email to ...

Auditors have flagged “anomalies” worth almost 14 million euros in deals between a Serbian arms factory and a Belgian machinery manufacturer, BIRN can report. This post is also available in this ...

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, ...

A string of mafia-style killings this year has put the spotlight on the lesser-known criminal underworld in North Macedonia. On March 6, Jeton Krivanjeva was in a hookah lounge in Skopje’s Old Bazaar ...