The Western Balkan countries remain important corridors in Europe for drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, says the 2025 Organised Crime Index, produced by an anti-graft NGO. The ruling ...

In an interview with BIRN, Igor Grosu, speaker of the Moldovan parliament, says the country must overcome internal differences over rule-of-law policy and geopolitical orientation to keep up its ...

German defence giant is to build a new ammunition and propellant factory in central Romania, as Europe ramps up arms production amid the war in Ukraine. Germany’s Rheinmetall AG CEO Armin Papperger (L ...

Prosecutors in Kosovo have shelved an investigation based on an internal audit at the Kosovo intelligence agency that identified nearly two million euros of alleged undocumented spending under three ...

Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes ...

A wild river given protection as a ‘national park’ in 2023 still faces serious threats to its biodiversity from pollution – and Albania’s government is doing little to stop it. Only a few metres ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

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Former trade and construction minister and five others are arrested as a part of probe into alleged corruption in a railway modernisation project that included the Novi Sad railway station renovation ...

Even after Russia publicly accused it of betrayal, Serbia approved the transit through its territory of almost 1,000 artillery shells from Bosnia on behalf of a Czech company tasked with keeping ...

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 ...

As Israel and Iran continued to exchange fire, sparking fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East, several Balkan countries have transported their citizens home by plane. In North Macedonia, a ...