The growth of Albanian drug trafficking and the proliferation of cannabis production in the country has earned Albania the nickname the “Columbia of Europe”. Italian authorities have found links between... 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 →
The murder of a human rights lawyer who had been fighting to keep her sister’s killer in prison has sparked protests in Ukraine and been described by the country’s foreign... read more →
In his annual speech on "The State of the European Union", Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for further enlargement of the European Union in the Balkans. This would see countries... read more →
Bulgarian vice-president Iliana Yotova has thrown cold water on a new anti-corruption law that was passed by the Bulgarian parliament on December 20, saying “the law will not lead to... read more →
Civil society groups have heavily criticised a draft bill establishing an anti-corruption court in Ukraine for failing to ensure the independence of the new institution. When details of the long-awaited... read more →
The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Russian republic of Chechnya and a key Putin ally, for alleged human rights abuses. It brings... 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 →
Russia’s ex-economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been found guilty of extortion and sentenced to 8 years in prison by a court in Moscow for demanding a bribe from Igor Sechin,... read more →
A court in Kiev has found Petro Melnyk the former Rector of Ukraine’s National Tax Service University not guilty of abuse of office for selling university properties to a company... read more →
