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 the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Daily Maverick and De Groene Amsterdammer, among others. Rujević won the "Dejan Anastasijević" award for investigative journalism in 2023.

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

Photo: ©KTV

Nemanja Rujevic

Basic information

Name
Nemanja Rujević
Title
Journalist and editor
Country
Germany
City
Bonn
Website

Supported projects

White Lines, Political Play

  • Corruption
  • Organised crime
  • Trafficking

BELGRADE - Cocaine production and trafficking has reached record levels, with organised crime groups from the Western Balkans playing a major role in the EU market, working with Dutch groups. The recent hacking of the encrypted messaging platform Sky ECC has revealed the inner workings of criminal organisations. A team of journalists from Serbia and the Netherlands investigated the impact of the violent cocaine trade linking their countries.

Photo credit: Dutch Customs/Douane Nederland.

Complain Like a German

  • Human Rights
  • Industry
  • Work

BERLIN - The new German Supply Chain Act requires all German companies to ensure that human rights are respected throughout their global supply chains. This means no child labour, no forced labour and no exploitation. But is this really the case?

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.

old cars in serbia

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

  • Environment
  • Trafficking

CONAKRY / BELGRADE - 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.

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.