MAN Truck & Bus said it had stopped taking tyres from Chinese Linglong’s Serbian plant last month after reports alleging the exploitation and possible trafficking of Vietnamese and Indian workers, but ...

A joint investigation by BIRN and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that Chisinau says were used to train Moldovans in ...

The coalition’s last-minute changes have done little to calm concerns that the approved law – which dismisses the watchdog’s leadership – remains incompatible with EU rules and is primarily a form of ...

An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say ...

Intrusive, outdated and sometimes harmful procedures during childbirth remain routine in Croatian hospitals, where standards of care vary wildly and veer from WHO recommendations. Marija was under no ...

A nightclub fire claiming 63 lives, the biggest tragedy in the country’s recent history, became a major national trauma and triggered protests against deep-seated systemic corruption.

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 ...

Polish municipalities across an area greater than the size of Hungary have adopted resolutions that critics say discriminate against LGBT people and make intolerance official. Local municipalities ...

Enver Hoxha’s dictatorial Communist regime ruled using mass surveillance, but only now are some Albanians seeing their files and discovering that friends and relatives informed on them to the powerful ...

Decades of neglect and bad management have turned Skopje’s iconic GTC shopping centre, once a beloved symbol of the capital, into a shadow of its former self. Since its opening in the 1970s, Skopje’s ...