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A new survey by the International Republican Institute shows that the vast majority of Bosnians are gloomy about the future – though most still back the country’s European integration. About 86 per cent of Bosnians believe...

While Hungary has always supported its minority population in neighbouring countries, experts say that under the rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the country has significantly increased its presence in the Balkans. Hungary’s leader is increasingly...

Data that BIRN has obtained show that more than 160 migrants and refugees currently in the Balkans are unaccompanied children or children separated from parents. Most are staying in collective centres, hostels, asylum centres, parks, or...

A Moscow court has approved the arrest of a Moldovan-born energy executive accused of spying for Romania, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported. A Moscow court has approved the arrest of a Moldovan-born executive of the...

Canada’s Senate has passed a landmark law, known as the Cannabis Act, legalizing recreational marijuana use. Canadians will have to wait until September at the earliest, however, before they can buy the drug legally.      The...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her French counterpart have vowed to introduce a single eurozone budget and emergency funding as part of far-reaching reforms. They also agreed to reduce the refugee flow to Europe. Germany and...

The head of Nato has warned that the deep divisions between the US under Donald Trump and its European allies are not going away and there is no certainty that the transatlantic relationship and its military alliance will...

A teenager sang a few lines of a Socialist song before asking the French president: “How’s it going, Manu?” Monsieur Macron was not amused. French President Emmanuel Macron scolded a teenage boy on Monday after he...

Yua Funato was repeatedly beaten and starved, but the pleading messages she left her mother and step-father have shaken a nation that used to pride itself on the importance of family and community. Julian Ryall reports....

The attack of two men wearing kippas– also known as yarmulkes – on a street in Berlin caused outrage in Germany. The suspect is in court on charges of hate speech and aggravated assault. The trial...