In closed messaging groups and through small-scale concerts, the Croatian branch of Blood and Honour is networking with other neo-Nazis in Europe. Patrik denies being a member of Blood and Honour, but ...

After the US paused visa processing for 75 countries, including Albania, the opposition in Tirana has accused the government of getting the country put on Trump's "blacklist". Albanian Minister for ...

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with first.

New draft law aims to drastically tighten restrictions on smoking, and on advertising nicotine products, amid stubbornly high consumption rates. A woman smokes a cigarette in Skopje. Photo: EPA/GEORGI ...

BIRN's monitoring of digital rights violations in August and September highlighted a threatening Hungarian ‘dark web’ site that contained illegally obtained images of women, plus a series of arrests ...

Court snubs a compensation request from veteran former Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic as he disputes an anti-corruption agency decision related to a credit card while he was in office.

In the world of garbage treatment in Albania, one man’s name keeps cropping up. His connections cross the country’s bitter political divide. On a rainy afternoon in July 2017, Albania’s then finance ...

Three years after the Belgrade Court of Appeal acquitted four Serbian security operatives of the murder in 1999 of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija, the Supreme Court said that the verdict ...

Experts say more proactive approaches may be needed to deal with ongoing wave of emailed bomb alerts that are highly disruptive – but difficult to trace. Hoax bomb threats, mostly sent by email to ...

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, ...

Decades ago, Ada Bojana was thronging with nudists. Now it’s under threat from the sea and state neglect. Stepping between abandoned bungalows, tourist guide Ismet Karamanaga recalls the naked heyday ...

Auditors have flagged “anomalies” worth almost 14 million euros in deals between a Serbian arms factory and a Belgian machinery manufacturer, BIRN can report. This post is also available in this ...