The chairman of Chelsea football club, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, withdrew an application for a residence permit in Switzerland, after the federal police decided that his long-term presence could be... read more →
Slovenian police arrested two people and carried out house searches on Thursday as part of an investigation into an armed vigilante group that has made headlines in the small Adriatic... read more →
The assassination of Oliver Ivanović, the leader of the Serbs of Kosovo, last week marked a major step backwards in the painfully slow road towards stability in the Balkans. Critically,... read more →
Much of the debate surrounding how open Europe should be to migrants circles around fears that an influx of asylum seekers will mean a rise in crime. That assumption seemed... read more →
The European Commission has singled out Moldova and Ukraine as needing to do more to tackle crime and corruption if they want to continue to benefit from visa-free access to... read more →
Albania is both a country of origin and a transit country for the trafficking of men, women, and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. Women who... read more →
Milo Djukanovic, the former prime minister of Montenegro, has been hinting recently that he might be eyeing up a presidential run in 2018. Few would be surprised if he did.... read more →
Despite recent improvements, the battle against corruption in Albania remains one of its most difficult challenges and biggest hurdles to European Union membership. In 2012 Transparency International ranked Albania as... read more →
Four Bulgarian citizens have been arrested for allegedly running an ATM skimming operation in Europe, the international law enforcement agency, Europol, announced on Thursday. The concerted action involved the Italian... read more →
Bulgaria has received a mixed scorecard from the European Commission in its latest review of the country’s efforts to implement judicial reform and combat organised crime. November’s report took stock... read more →
