Nemanja Rujević is a journalist and editor for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle and the Serbian weekly Vreme.

Nemanja is the author of the newsletter Međuvreme and the column Vaservaga in the daily newspaper Danas. His investigative reports have been published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Daily Maverick, De Groene Amsterdammer, and other outlets. Rujević won the “Dejan Anastasijević” award for investigative journalism in 2023.

Nemanja publishes reports and analysis in Serbian, German and English.

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Nemanja Rujevic

Basic information

Name
Nemanja Rujević
Title
Journalist and editor
Country
Germany
City
Bonn
Website
DW.com
Links

Supported projects

Complain Like a German

  • Human Rights
  • Work

BERLIN/BELGRADE - According to the new German Supply Chain Act, all German companies are obligated to ensure that human rights are respected throughout their supply chains worldwide. This means no child labor, no forced labor, and no exploitation. But is that truly the case?

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Worker in Leoni factory in Serbia, producing car cables

Old Cars From Western Europe Polluting Serbia

  • Climate
  • Environment
  • Industry

BELGRADE - Serbia is a graveyard for old and polluting cars from Western Europe. Last year alone, countries in the European Union (EU) exported around 150,000 used cars to the Balkan country. Experts say that this number will increase in the coming years, as the EU is facing out cars using internal combustion engines by 2035 as part of the Green Deal.

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old cars in serbia

How exotic birds are trafficked from Guinea into the EU via Serbia

  • Environment
  • Trafficking

GUINEA/SERBIA/THE NETHERLANDS - According to Europol, the smuggling of songbirds and other tropical birds to the European Union (EU) has skyrocketed in recent years, especially along the Balkans trafficking route.

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Is the EU’s craze for lithium fueling destructive mining operations in Serbia?

  • Environment
  • Industry
  • Politics

BELGRADE - In Serbia, there is a lot of lithium, money and political interest at stake. Under the farming lands of its Jadar valley, geologists from mining giant Rio Tinto found Europe's largest lithium deposits - an amount enough to produce at least one million electric car batteries a year. 

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