Politics

Italy’s president has formally asked Carlo Cottarelli to try to form a government after quashing the hopes of the Five Star Movement and Lega to form western Europe’s first populist government. Sergio Mattarella turned to the former...

A new economy minister, Darko Horvat, has been appointed in Croatia to deal with the country’s crisis-hit retail giant Agrokor. Croatia’s parliament on Friday confirmed the appointments of a new Vice-Prime Minister and Economy Minister –...

Montenegrin rights groups urged the authorities to punish the perpetrators of the forced deportations of Bosniak refugees 26 years ago and build a memorial to the victims. Activists from three Montenegrin human rights groups laid wreaths on Friday...

The main opposition parties in Albania are preparing for a major protest on Saturday, accusing the government of having links to drug dealers, despite being called ‘traitors’ to Albania by the Prime Minister. Albania’s opposition Democratic...

North Korea claims to have dismantled its only known nuclear test site, detonating explosives and collapsing its entrances in front of international television crews in a highly symbolic move. Reporters at the scene described a series of...

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...

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...