Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s
chief European political correspondent, covering developments across
Europe and the wider world. He produces investigative reporting,
agenda-setting exclusives, analyses of politics and diplomacy, and
deeply reported features on extraordinary people and events.
In
recent years, his work has focused on Russia’s aggression against
Ukraine, the Kremlin’s covert operations in Europe, and the escalating
shadow war of espionage and sabotage between Russia and the West.
Previously,
he served as the Journal’s Germany correspondent, where he covered many
of the same issues while also writing about the politics, society, and
global influence of Europe’s largest economy.
Over
nearly two decades of reporting from across Europe and beyond, Bojan
has written about virtually every major story on the continent: the
financial crisis that shook the eurozone, the wars in Ukraine, multiple
migration crises, Britain’s departure from the European Union, Russia’s
use of assassination against opponents of the regime, the rise of
Islamist terror, and the political upheavals across Europe.
He
co-authored a bestselling book on the crimes of Josef Fritzl—an
investigation into one of the most extraordinary criminal cases in
modern European history.
His
work has been nominated for numerous prestigious awards. He was part of
the teams that won the William Worthy Award of the Overseas Press Club,
the British Journalism Award for Breaking News, and the New York Press
Club Award for Special Event Reporting. Bojan is the only foreign
recipient of the Werner Holzer Award, which honors the lifetime work of
German foreign correspondents. He was also part of the WSJ team named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting in 2025.
He is fluent in several European languages, including German and Russian.
With
his new book on the Nord Stream sabotage, he offers the most
comprehensive reconstruction to date of an attack that shook Europe.