Politics

The recent arrests of two Turkish citizens in Azerbaijan and Ukraine – who were then deported to Turkey to face charges of alleged links with the exiled Muslim cleric Fetullah Gulen – has added to the...

A tweet by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders about her ejection from a Virginia restaurant on Friday broke federal ethics rules, a leading expert said. On Saturday, Sanders posted: “Last night I was told by the owner of...

Members of a conservative citizens’ initiative, ‘The People Decide’ who have been collecting signatures seeking a referendum on changes to election law, on Wednesday submitted their petition to parliament. A socially conservative civic initiative in Croatia, “The People...

After Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev agreed to rename his country Northern Macedonia, President Gjorge Ivanov declared he would not sign off on the deal with Greece. The Greek government faces troubles of its own. The...

Macedonia is soon to change its restrictive abortion law, which sparked widespread criticism from rights activists when it was adopted five years ago, the health minister said. The new law on abortion, whose draft version is...

What a paradox! Concurrently with assuming the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, Croatia is facing a tide of populist and political manifestations that threaten to severely shake the institutions and structure of...

Pro-European candidate Andrei Nastase won the second-round run-off for the Chisinau mayoralty in polls seen as an important test ahead of parliamentary elections in Moldova later this year. Dignity and Truth Platform, PPDA, candidate Andrei Nastase won...

North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said on Sunday, a shakeup that could signal the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is working to silence dissent ahead of...

Italy’s new populist government has been sworn in to power after the president, Sergio Mattarella, agreed to a revised slate of ministers – just days after a bitter row over the incoming leaders’ stance on the...

  Mariano Rajoy, once viewed as the great survivor of Spanish politics, has been ousted as prime minister in a vote of no confidence after several former members of his party were convicted of corruption in...