Awaiting trial on graft charges, Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj has fought hard to maintain his position after the Albanian government tried to dismiss him – but how is the city being governed while he’s ...

‘They send people to their deaths,’ Bosnian recruit Selver Hrustic says of the Russian army in an interview in his Ukrainian prison cell, where he’s being held as a prisoner of war. For Selver Hrustic ...

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 ...

The suspects are among 33 people accused of involvement in shipping a cargo of dangerous industrial waste from Albania to Thailand. The ship Moliva, carrying suspected hazardous waste, docked at Porto ...

The trial started in Belgrade of Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic over the removal of cultural heritage status from the NATO-bombed Yugoslav Army HQ site, which Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared ...

The Pristina Basic Court on Tuesday sentenced Srdjan Lazovic, a former reservist member of the Yugoslav Army, to 12 years and six months in prison for war crimes against civilians in Panorc, a village ...

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 ...

Having resigned the presidency, Rumen Radev thinks he’s about to ride to Bulgaria’s rescue in the upcoming parliamentary elections, but the electoral mathematics and voting realities of recent years ...

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 ...

Expecting the unexpected seems to be the name of the game in both global politics and the domestic politics of the region, as 2026 kicks off with a few unexpected twists. US President Donald Trump ...

Case files obtained by BIRN and Canada’s CBC document the globe-trotting lifestyle of a Canadian maths whizz who went to ground in 2021, allegedly with tens of millions of dollars in stolen ...

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 ...