Police investigations reveal that organised crime groups often use ordinary people and passenger transport agencies to smuggle their illegal profits from EU countries and elsewhere back into Albania.

BIRN has identified a growing network of increasingly sophisticated and intrusive surveillance technology in Serbia, in schools, hospitals, on the roads and in the air, all without an adequate ...

Some Balkan countries are planning to evacuate stranded citizens from the conflict zone around Iran, others have already managed to fly people out - although some have only issued security warnings.

Court orders detention for bank owner Aleksandar Djukanovic, brother of the country's former president, after police seized firearms, ammunition and ballistic vests at his family home. Police van ...

A Chinese consortium is to construct the second section of Montenegro's Bar-Boljare highway – whose first stretch was widely derided for leading 'from nothing to nowhere'. Entrance to the first ...

Decision to place Artan Grubi in house detention rather than prison, after he turned himself in following months on the run, sparks accusations of behind-the-scenes deals. North Macedonia’s former ...

In the coming months, Bulgaria will probably hold its eighth election in four years. But will this calm the political turbulence, or will rising nationalist forces in parliament bring new problems as ...

‘Girlhood at War’ by Vjosa Musliu is an account of coming of age during the 1998-99 Kosovo war – and how that has shaped her ideas about racial discrimination and the feeling of being ‘unwanted’. This ...

Croatian’s premier paid a visit to Kyiv alongside other EU leaders, while most Balkan leaders voiced strong support for Ukraine’s self-defence on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s military assault.

Experts doubt the effect of Serbia’s spending on US lobbyists to burnish the country’s image in the eyes of Donald Trump. Serbia has spent $3.2 million on Washington lobbyists since July 2023, almost ...

Supporters of Ukraine gathered to show solidarity in Belgrade, Athens, Skopje and other cities in the Balkans as the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out military assault on its neighbour was marked ...

After months of defending his deputy and Minister of Infrastructure, Belinda Balluku, who faces allegations of manipulating public tenders, Edi Rama finally dismissed her on Thursday night. Albania’s ...