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.

The ten-part series profiles women who were inspired to take positive action by the conflicts that erupted as Yugoslavia collapsed in the 1990s. Ahead of the EU-Western Balkans summit, the closure by ...

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 ...

Arbenita Muhaxheri has spent most of her life wondering what happened to her mother after she was stopped at a Serbian checkpoint in 1999 during the Kosovo war. A deal agreed a year ago to expedite ...

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 ...

A new drive to boost military service is spreading across Europe as Russia's continued war against Ukraine jolts fearful governments into action. Vladimir Putin said this week that Russia is “ready ...

Denied extradition requests, strained relations and historical revisionism: the Nord Stream saga, a thorn in Polish-German ties for over a decade, is far from over. On October 17, a Polish court ...

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Robert Fico’s coalition fell short on paper – until opposition lawmakers crossed the aisle, reshaping both Slovakia’s constitution from November 1 as well as the political map. When Speaker Richard ...

The Bosnian Serb strongman has named his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August.

Hundreds of protestors marched to Hatvanpuszta, a vast estate tied to the family of Hungary’s prime minister and seen by many as a symbol of corruption in Hungary. The so-called ‘safari tour’ was ...

As attacks on humans become increasingly commonplace, officials argue about how to manage the rising bear population – and conversationists question whether shooting more bears will solve the problem.