BIRN’s second Reporting House museum in Pristina tells the stories of Kosovo Albanians who found refuge in North Macedonia after Serbian forces deported them on trains in 1999. This post is also ...

Work visas provide little protection for migrant workers in Romania; many end up moving on or returning home to escape exploitation. As a teenager, Rafi* dreamed of studying and starting a business in ...

As Serbia’s EU integration minister, Nemanja Starovic, climbed the ruling party ladder, his sister simultaneously benefitted from more than 200,000 euros worth of public tenders and grants. In ...

Polish filmmaker Konrad Szolajski’s new documentary looks at nearly a decade of Russian sabotage, espionage and disinformation across Central and Eastern Europe, with an eery actuality. “Putting the ...

Coming from Nepal, Mexico, the Philippines and beyond, the number of foreign nationals working in Montenegro has almost doubled since 2017, as authorities and employers scramble to fill widening gaps ...

Thousands of Bulgarians on Wednesday called for reforms and voiced frustration with political corruption – especially targeting the MRF – New Beginning leader and sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.

Allegations that a former presidential adviser threatened a government lawyer with the release of private sexually explicit material have put the spotlight on so-called ’revenge porn‘ and the use of ...

Likely sale of the foreign assets of the US-sanctioned Russian oil giant will have important consequences for fuel supplies in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. The central office of Russian oil company ...

IIB is pushing to have sanctions lifted so it can ‘fulfil its obligations to investors and creditors’, yet few believe they will get any money back. Hungary has frozen €19 million of the development ...

Moscow would like its partner Aleksandar Vucic’s administration to remain in place – but as events in Venezuela and Syria have shown, its response to unwelcome upheavals is usually pragmatic. Donald ...

Sarajevo cameraman Sulejman Mulaomerovic recalls filming the killing of a 16-year-old Albanian girl in Kosovo in 1990 and the ripple-effects that followed. This post is also available in this language ...

New changes to the Albanian criminal code that only partially abolish defamation as an offence have been criticised by media freedom organisations, citing concerns over freedom of speech. Albanian ...