From mass protests and fragile peace talks to pressure on opposition parties and the jailing of journalists, Turkey had another politically troubled year. Riot police use teargas to disperse ...

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.

Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime raids a suspected crime group based at the National Information Agency, accused of running scheme to manipulate tenders. The Special ...

Despite political tensions sparked by high-profile corruption cases, Klodjan Braho tells BIRN that his main priority will be to guarantee Albanians that “no one is above the law”. Supporters of the ...

Amid heightened political tensions in Bulgaria, the sudden non-appearance of outspoken TV morning show hosts Maria Tsantsarova and Zlatimir Yochev drew claims that the country is going back to 'a time ...

Now 78 years old, Metodije Prkacin wants justice for the torture he and others suffered in the Morinj military facility near Kotor, Montenegro, in 1991-1992, but he’s not holding his breath. Earlier ...

Tens of thousands filled the streets of Bulgaria’s biggest towns to protest against the current government, the proposed state budget and the lack of long overdue political lustration Huge crowds took ...

The EU‘s new Water Resilience Strategy is raising concerns among environmentalists about the future protection of a precious resource. For 25 years, the European Union’s water protection has long ...

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 ...

Special Prosecution indicts three over the explosion at the Iber Lepenc water canal in November 2024, which the government described as a terrorist attack. The Iber-Lepenc canal in the northern Kosovo ...

Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a BIRN ...

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