Earlier this week, Albania’s Special Appeals Court Against Corruption and Organised Crime upheld a verdict sentencing the former General Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla to two years in prison for illegally concealing... read more →
Some 2,000 people marched on the Serbian capital of Belgrade this weekend to protest Rio Tinto’s plans to expand lithium mining operations in the country, temporarily blocking a major bridge... read more →
The European Commission has escalated its concerns over judicial independence in Poland, calling on the EU’s Court of Justice to impose daily fines on Warsaw as part of its infringement... read more →
Relations between Albania and Kosovo have sunk to new lows after a German official hinted at support for the long-disputed “Open Balkan” initiative. Kosovo is resolutely opposed to the project. ... read more →
Poland and Lithuania have called on European institutions to help them deal with a surge in migrants crossing over their borders from Belarus, as tensions between European Union countries and... read more →
In what rights activists are calling a new crackdown on opponents of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, security officers raided the offices and homes of independent journalists and human rights activists... read more →
Britain is ramping up its efforts to end the epidemic of violence on women and girls, admitting that authorities “cannot do it alone.” In an interim report, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate... read more →
London’s High Court has thrown out a Romanian extradition request for businessman Gabriel ‘Puiu’ Popoviciu. The Court found credible evidence showing that the Romanian trial judge who convicted and sentenced... read more →
An 82-year old woman could face two years in prison for trying to slip in rolls of cannabis into jail in Romania. Elena Mladin has the dubious honour of being... read more →
German prosecutors are set to slap murder charges against a 27-year-old woman for allegedly killing five of her six children inside their home. According to Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, a prosecutor in... read more →
