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Thai rescuers insist they will not take any risk in trying to free 12 young soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave. The group went missing inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex...

Poland’s top judge Malgorzata Gersdorf has defied a controversial new Polish law forcing all judges into retirement at 65. Thousands were on hand for a protest against judicial reforms being investigated by the EU. Poland’s Supreme...

Addressing parliament for the first time since her clash with Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the German chancellor sought to stress a common way forward. But things remain tense both inside and outside her coalition. Budgetary debates...

Bulgaria’s parliament has supported controversial legal amendments that oblige media to reveal the sources of their income – pushed by the media mogul and politican Delyan Peevski. With 92 votes in favour, 12 against and 28...

The European Commission withheld financial assistance for Moldova on Wednesday after the country’s Supreme Court last week cancelled the Chisinau mayoral elections. The European Commission on Wednesday blocked financial assistance for Moldova after the country’s Supreme...

Russia was willing to go to ‘any lengths’ to bring down Montenegro’s pro-Western government in 2016, and the country’s Western path still remains vulnerable, a new report from a US-based think tank says. A report by...

We could start by saying “they” didn’t promise us hoverboards. People want hoverboards because they saw one in the disappointing sequel Back to the Future Part II . But that doesn’t mean people haven’t tried to make them....

Bosnian government institutions and public companies spent around 4.5 million euros on purchasing vehicles in the first six months of 2018, BIRN’s new database shows. In the first six months of the year, around 4.5 million...

Five years after Croatia joined the EU, all member countries have opened their labour markets to Croats except Austria – which has decided to keep restrictions in place until July 2020. After Slovenia on Friday announced...

Ahead of a referendum due in autumn, Macedonia’s government has launched a social media campaign in support of the historic agreement with Greece over its name. Macedonia’s government has launched what it calls an “informal” campaign...