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After its launch in June 1993, satirical weekly Feral Tribune, based in the Croatian coastal city of Split, quickly became the most prominent anti-establishment voice on the government-controlled media scene. When its best-known front page, showing the...

The vast majority of Europe’s rivers, lakes and estuaries have failed to meet minimum ecological standards for habitat degradation and pollution, according to a damning new report. Only 40% of surface water bodies surveyed by the...

Angela Merkel has reached a deal on migration with her rebellious interior minister, Horst Seehofer, defusing a bitter row that had threatened her government. Both sides hammered out “a good compromise … after a difficult struggle”, Merkel...

He has defended his controversial positions on tariffs and trade, even as global markets were buffeted by a disappointing start to the second half of the year. At a meeting with the prime minister of the Netherlands,...

A draft of Theresa May’s Brexit plan has already been dismissed as unrealistic by senior EU officials, who say the UK has no chance of changing the European Union’s founding principles. The prime minister is gathering her squabbling ministers...

The future of Germany’s coalition government is hanging in the balance after the country’s interior minister reportedly announced his intention to resign over a migration showdown with Angela Merkel. Horst Seehofer, who is also leader of the...

A baseball-loving left-wing nationalist who has vowed to crack down on corruption, rein in Mexico’s war on drugs and rule for the poor has been elected president of Latin America’s second-largest economy. Andrés Manuel López Obrador,...

Several hundred Greeks protested in Athens and Thessaloniki against the recent agreement with neighbouring Macedonia over its name. The daily Kathimerini reported that police in Athens used tear gas to disperse the protesters while the rally in Thessaloniki saw minor scuffles...

Five years after it joined the EU on July 1, 2013, Croatia is still weighing up the balance sheet of this momentous change – which, along with NATO membership, completed the process of its detachment from...

Montenegro’s authorities said they will join Serbia and Kosovo in supporting the establishment of the RECOM fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars in the Balkans. The Montenegrin government has committed to signing up to a declaration...