The clickbait industry is thriving in North Macedonia, with companies pumping out masses of tabloid-style articles online to earn money from Google Ads, focusing on coronavirus sensationalism and...
BIRN pieces together the paths taken and prices paid by Albanians seeking better lives in the UK but who, in many cases, face years of illegality and exploitation. By Valbona Bezati By...
While the COVID-19 pandemic initially hampered the flow of seasonal workers from Albania to Greece, it also prompted the two countries to think about how better to regulate the phenomenon. By...
In rescuing dogs and promoting ‘traditional’ rural life, far-right groups are seeking to encroach on the political mainstream in Europe. By Vladan Djukanovic, Predrag Milic, and Jelena...
In Bosnia, ethnic identity – Serb, Croat or Bosniak – comes first. Can it be different among Bosnians elsewhere? By Harun Dinarevic Ovaj članak je dostupan i na...
Nationalist groups in Romania have seized on a Romanian woman’s child custody fight in Finland as evidence of the corrupted values of the West. By Ani Sandu Shortly after midday on a...
To many who trace their roots to socialist Yugoslavia, ‘Yugo-nostalgia’ isn’t just about how they or their families once lived, but about the life they want to live now. By Filip...
In Bosnia, former foes are trying to stop their own past from poisoning the future. By Mirza Buljubasic and Barbora Hola Twenty-eight years ago, early in the war in Bosnia and...
Neglected by their ‘homelands’, some diaspora Albanians are being targeted for religious radicalisation as they seek to connect and reinforce a sense of identity in adoptive states where they do...
Serbian taxpayers are unwittingly paying for an army of bots to promote the country’s ruling party and denigrate its rivals. By Andjela Milivojevic His Twitter name is ‘Robin...
Trying to make political gains, the far-right in Greece and Italy is painting refugees and migrants as carriers of COVID-19. By Aggelos Andreou On March 12, a security guard at a Greek...
Emigration has long afflicted the countries of the Balkans. But many of those who leave know they will return in death. By Jeton Musliu Once a month, Atdhe Gashi makes the short trip...
Greece has been praised for acting fast to contain the spread of COVID-19, but had politically-connected Orthodox hardliners got their way, the picture might have been very different. By...
A survey of young Serbs living abroad provides a snapshot of a more open-minded community ready to acknowledge and condemn Serbian responsibility for war crimes committed during Yugoslavia’s...
In the last decade of the 20th century, Western Europe threw open its doors to those fleeing the collapse of Yugoslavia. Today, Denmark says integration has failed and is pursuing a worrying...