We present in-depth investigations into stories relevant to the greater Black Sea region. Narrow down by:
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Romanian Trucker, Polish Wage, Dutch Workplace
How salaries migrate across the EU in the haulage business
Romania, Belarus, Netherlands, Ukraine
Architects of the Extreme
How urban planning in Bucharest changed from a western vision of functional housing to a sabotage of the city
Bucharest, Romania
When the Night Has Come
Capturing Romania after dark
Maramures, Constanta, Bucharest, Cluj
Dream Houses
Ghost mansions are appearing across the fields of north Romania - built by emigrants hoping to return to a better home
Suceava, Maramures, Romania
Living on the Edge
The quest for a better life at the outskirts of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
“I-am scos inima cu o furcă”
Exorcism amator sub investigatie
Oltenia, Romania
“I dug out his heart with a pitchfork”
Amateur exorcism in Romania under investigation
Oltenia, Romania
How Romania sold out its workers to foreign investors for IMF and EU cash
Welcome to the minimum wage society
Brussels, Washington, Bucharest
Airbus Corruption Allegations Point Straight to the Top
European Aerospace giant created “slush fund” in UK as part of offset deal
Germany, France, Romania
Where have all the mothers gone?
Romania’s parents leave to work abroad in the absence of a living wage at home, and children pay the price
Liteni, Romania
How Turkey’s war on Gülenists was exported to Romania
Cancelled passports, blackmail allegations, death threats
Bucharest, Romania
What happened after The Sun left town
Impact of false claims by UK tabloid on 'child slaves' making Kinder Egg toys
Carei, Romania
"Many girls thought it would be a game where they make love to one man and then another"
Shadowing the international streetwalkers of Naples
Naples, Italy
Checking in to Europe's largest illegal drugs supermarket
Searching for a new class of east European addicts who steal for heroin in Spain
Madrid, Canada Real
The Last Stigma
From the buzz of crime to serving time to facing discrimination against ex-cons
Milan, Bucharest
Eurocrimes
Which nations come first in expat prisoner numbers in the EU
EU, Romania
Expat Romanians: their own worst enemy
How Romania topped prisoner numbers in Italy - and how this is changing
Rome, Italy
“It's so painful to realise we are victims”
Women sex-trafficked from Romania to Spain reveal path from tragedy to recovery
Madrid, Spain
Half a million abandoned kids: moving forward from southeast Europe’s history of shame
Child protection changes probed in nations rising from Communism
East Balkans,, The Black Sea
Return of the Boyars
Locals and inheritors battle for ownership of village, land and forest
Nadas, Romania
The Death of the Field
A village struggles thru communism, deportation, fragementation - and sale to Italians
Dudestii Vechi, Romania
The White Seagull
Chess championship comes to most isolated village in Danube Delta
Sfistofca, Romania
Dutch Rabobank buys up land stolen from Romanian farmers
Smallholders wake up to find their land seized by corrupt officials
Zarand, Romania
How realistic is a union between Romania and Moldova?
Stepping through the minefield of history to probe the prospect of new borders at a flashpoint between the EU and Russia
Bucharest, Chisinau
A wedding in the sky
Shot in the revolution, pimped out and lost to heroin - a story of survival at a cost to mark 25 years since Romania's uprising
Bucharest, Romania
How Romania fails its battered women
Eight reasons why Romanian society neglects victims of domestic violence
Cluj, Bucharest, Romania
“When you want to kill yourself - it would be great to have someone to talk to”
Exploring the hidden crime of domestic violence among Romania's middle classes
Cluj, Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest wedding singer crippled by legal highs, rescued by breakdancing
Paralyzed by legal highs, wedding singer Ciobi was living on the streets, his body collapsing - until he took up popping, locking and breaking
Bucharest, Romania
Foreign Governments, top diplomats and film stars caught up in Rosia Montana Gold Corp PR history
Controversial prizes, diplomatic pressure and a dance with Vanessa Redgrave - PR gold mine-style
Bucharest, Romania
Unlikely Dissidents
Meeting the dedicated opponents of shale gas fracking across two continents
Romania, Poland, USA
Billion-Euro Rosia Montana mine project rips communities apart
As the future of the multi-billion Euro gold mining project in Transylvania remains unsure, we report from a village where families are at war
Rosia Montana, Romania
Folk traditions join with new money in rural Romanian weddings
Marriages in northeast Romanian villages assume a fresh identity in an age of work migration
Tara Oasului, Romania
Pride and Concrete
How Romanian work migrants sacrificed the comforts of a life abroad to build the dream mansion at home
Romania, France
German Karate teacher recruits Romanian village kids into global child porn ring
Remote village becomes child porn studio for global market - without the knowledge of the victims
Seini, Romania
Pride and Concrete short film
Romanians working in France transform cottages in their home villages into mansions of steel and concrete
Transylvania, Romania
A Black Sea journey
Mysterious, menacing, mythical and unknown - a travel story in pictures around the Black Sea
The Black Sea, Where Europe meets Asia
Romania bowing to US pressure to rethink GMO ban
Ten years of American pro-GMO lobbying in Bucharest reaps a change in Romanian view on biotech
Bucharest, Romania
Kill, adopt or set free on the streets? Options for Romania’s millions of stray dogs
As Romania poises for mass murder of its strays, a feature doc explores the extent of this canine tragedy
Bucharest, Romania
Shale gas revolution risks cutting Romania a bad deal
Rip-off fears for nation as US energy giant gears up for fracking
Pungesti, Romania
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