Election Commission orders recount at all polling stations in the country after limited recount in ten municipalities reveals significant manipulation of votes cast. Illustration: BIRN/Denis Sllovinja ...

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 ...

When police attacked the first demonstrations against Albania’s repressive communist regime in April 1991, four students were killed. The officials who were initially convicted were amnestied, and ...

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 ...

Central Election Commission orders recount of 36 per cent of ballot boxes following reports of irregularities in the first count, delaying final certification of the December 28 election result.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with first.

In the world of garbage treatment in Albania, one man’s name keeps cropping up. His connections cross the country’s bitter political divide. On a rainy afternoon in July 2017, Albania’s then finance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Socialist Party, Albania’s government has been bombarding the media with carefully curated PR packages that air as ‘news’. On February 10, TV channels in Albania ...