Week in Review: Friends, Foes and Chocolate Thieves
From European Union accession hopes to ongoing corruption investigations, our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the political wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes…
Caught Between Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest: Vojvodina’s Fractured Minorities
As protests continue to shake Serbia, minority Hungarian and Slovak communities in the country’s northern Vojvodina region describe growing political pressure, shrinking autonomy and a quiet exodus of youth. KAYNAK:…
Inside Roj: Syria Tensions Fuel Fears for Balkan Women, Children in Detention Camp
BIRN went inside the Roj camp in northeastern Syria, where thousands of women and children who lived under the Islamic State are being held in indefinite detention - meeting Serbian…
Serbian’s Childhood Flight from War Inspired Refugee Work Across the Globe
In the fifth instalment of BIRN’s series about war-displaced people’s continuing links to the Balkans, Sandra Ivanov tells how her family’s emigration to New Zealand forged a commitment to humanitarian…
Chilling Effect: Serbia’s Growing Network of ‘Slippery’ Surveillance Technology
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 regulatory…
Week in Review: Trades and Betrayals
From European Union accession hopes to ongoing corruption investigations, our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the political wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes…
Serbia Spending More on Trump-Linked Lobbyists – to What Effect?
Experts doubt the effect of Serbia’s spending on US lobbyists to burnish the country’s image in the eyes of Donald Trump. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Serbian Lawyers Strike, But EU Pressure Decisive in Opposing Judicial Changes
Serbian lawyers stopped work for three days, but without a general strike in the judiciary, experts say only EU pressure can force the government to retract controversial legal amendments deemed…
Rallies for Ukraine Held in Balkans as Russia’s Invasion Enters Fifth Year
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…
Lessons Learned: It’s Time to Give Serbia the Undercover Treatment
At a recent conference of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, one theme stood out for me personally as an investigative journalist in Serbia – the power of undercover reporting in…