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 ...

The Bosnian state court confirmed the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a post-war Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, clearing him of taking part in wartime attacks that killed several ...

The car parts industry has become crucial to the North Macedonia economy, but low wages are keeping some would-be workers away. Kosta Atanasov was on the verge of quitting his native North Macedonia ...

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 ...

Pollution and sand extraction are destroying the Vardar River in North Macedonia, say the boatmen who sail its waters every year. As an organiser of the annual Gemidzii or ‘Boatmen’ regatta on North ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...

Opulent villas, island retreats, hunting lodges and yachts: Josip Broz Tito’s many properties were scattered across the republics of the former Yugoslavia - although some have fallen into disrepair ...

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.

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

Slovak civil society organisations have spent decades filling gaps left by the state. Now the state is coming for them. For years, the League for Mental Health stood among Slovakia’s most trusted ...