President Zuzana Čaputová gave the coalition until the end of January to find a new majority in the National Council, while Prime Minister Eduard Heger said negotiations are underway, the prospects look bleak. Heger’s government lost a no-confidence vote in…
President Rumen Radev is expected to soon hand over the third and final government mandate, meaning that if parties will again fail to form a coalition, Bulgarians will be called back to the polls for the fifth time in five…
The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1986 law that makes it a crime to urge people to stay in the United States unlawfully can be squared with the First Amendment. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
Janez Zemljarič, a politician who held several top positions during the communist era, including head of the secret police, has been buried with military honours, sparking controversy and reigniting old political divisions. Zemljarič served as the first minister of Slovenia’s…
KFOR, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, has rejected Serbia’s request to return Serbian security forces to the country’s north following rising tensions over the last month. The request to send in 1,000 military and security forces was made…
Albania is not currently under threat but it is prepared for the worst-case scenario, said Defence Minister Niko Peleshi, referring to the purchase of Bayraktar drones from Turkey. In December, Albania purchased three Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, a model used…
Finland is preparing to sign a bilateral security and defence agreement with the United States, paving the way for closer cooperation, strengthening security in Finland and across Europe, and broadening US reach. Speaking with tabloid newspaper Iltalehti on Sunday, Foreign…
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British foreign minister James Cleverly will on Monday (9 January) seek to inject fresh momentum into talks with the EU on resolving disputes over a post-Brexit trade relationship when he hosts the European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič in London. There…
Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine? Most international commentators still insist on viewing the war through the parallel prisms of resurgent Russian imperialism and NATO’s post-Cold War expansion. However, neither of these factors gets to the true heart of the…