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The Moscow Patriarch’s visit to Moldova is widely seen as a move to help the country’s pro-Russian Socialists ahead of key elections due this autumn. Moldova President Igor Dodon has confirmed that the head of the...

A court in Skopje on Wednesday sentenced former PM Nikola Gruevski to two years in jail for his involvement in the illicit secret purchase of a luxury Mercedes. Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia’s former prime minister and former...

In closing statements at the high-profile trial in Kosovo, the defence insisted that the kidney transplants at the Medicus clinic had no connection to people-trafficking as the indictment claims. In its closing statements on Tuesday, the...

A refugee NGO in Italy is hoping that the country’s new populist government will fail to implement the hardline immigration reforms promised during the election campaign. DW’s Bernd Riegert reports from Rome. “Sometimes, we take the...

The European Parliament has embarrassed itself by letting Mark Zuckerberg off the hook so easily. The Facebook CEO apologized again, but only clear regulations can contain the internet giant, says DW’s Barbara Wesel. This was the...

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says the Bremen branch of the Migration Office won’t decide any more asylum cases. The move is an attempt to counter accusations that the office wrongly approved hundreds of applications. The German...

The EU has leapt ahead of the UK in the pursuit of free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand after member states gave the green light for talks to start within weeks. With Theresa May insistent that...

Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is carrying out “assassination operations in the heart of Europe” has bewildered security experts and Iranian exiles, who say they are not aware of any evidence for the...

Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting at the European parliament ended in acrimony, amid a chorus of complaints that the Facebook founder had been allowed to evade questions and give vague answers. Over the 90-minute session the Facebook founder told MEPs there would...

One of the most popular travel guides, Lonely Planet, has included Albania and Kosovo on its list of the ten best holiday destinations in Europe for 2018. Lonely Planet’s list of ten “essential destinations in Europe this year” includes Kosovo...