9. August 2024.
Two years have passed since the Republika Srpska authorities officially announced the construction of a highway from Modrica to Brcko in the near future.
China in the Balkans
6. October 2023.
Not far from Livno, the construction of a wind power plant is being completed, proudly announced as the first energy investment by Chinese concessionaires in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But the citizens on whose land it was built, with the blessing of the local authorities, claim that the meadows were turned into a construction site – […]
30. March 2023.
Chinese and Turkish companies have had almost no competition from foreign companies in winning lucrative construction contracts worth over three billion euros in Bosnia and Herzegovina, research by Detektor reveals.
9. February 2023.
This month we’ll be showing how Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to meet the expectations of Uyghurs who thought the country would offer them sanctuary and we’ll be travelling to Istanbul, looking for members of the Chinese Muslim minority group who returned there from the Bosnian border because of the domestic authorities’ slow response to their pleas.
6. January 2023.
This month we’ll be analysing whether Republika Srpska entity president Milorad Dodik is replacing Russia with China as his key international partner and what effect this is having on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
19. October 2022.
Republika Srpska’s Ministry of Transport and Communication was ordered to provide the Transparency International NGO with the contract it signed with a Chinese company to build the Banja Luka-Prijedor highway.
27. April 2022.
Sarajevo Canton’s transport minister Adnan Steta said he has asked Chinese companies involved in the renovation of the city’s tramway tracks for details of their past jobs after an investigation by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina raised competence issues.
19. April 2022.
Authorities in Bosnia’s Sarajevo canton are refusing to release the contract they signed with a Chinese consortium for the reconstruction of the capital’s tram lines, making public oversight impossible.
16. March 2022.
The court blocked the expansion of the passenger port of Piraeus that were part of a development agreement with a Chinese company worth 4.3 billion euros because an environmental assessment was not done.
7. January 2022.
Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the focus of one of the most important Chinese companies’ desire to expand into the Western Balkans. Through the telecommunications company Huawei, China is extending its influence around the world, which is why it has been sanctioned by some countries. In the Western Balkans, the company wants to be the first to establish 4G and 5G networks and so-called ‘smart’ and ‘secure’ cities, but this is also raising concerns about its lack of transparency and privacy protection for users and the general public. BIRN has researched the company’s goals, the way it is expanding and the consequences of this. We have found out that Huawei paid for trips abroad for ministers.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.