Politics

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has warned that talks are at risk if the UK does not soften its red line on the Irish border issue. Speaking to reporters on his third visit to Ireland since the referendum, Michel...

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of continuing to hide and expand its nuclear weapons knowhow after a 2015 agreement with global powers, presenting what the Israeli prime minister claimed was “new and conclusive proof”. However, at least...

Romania’s centre-right president Klaus Iohannis has publicly called on Social Democrat Prime Minister Viorica Dancila to resign, saying that she is ‘unfit for the post’. Romania’s centre-right President, Klaus Iohannis, on Friday urged the Social Democrat...

The leaders of North and South Korea have promised after a landmark summit to bring “lasting peace” to the peninsula with a commitment to denuclearisation and to ending decades of hostilities. Speaking at the end of an extraordinary...

North Korea’s main nuclear test site has partially collapsed under the stress of multiple explosions, possibly rendering it unsafe for further testing and leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks, a study by Chinese geologists has shown....

The Serbian government’s discarded media strategy draft, which has been obtained by BIRN, planned to bring the state back into the media market through public-private partnerships. The Serbian Information Ministry’s draft media strategy, which was criticised by media...

After some Western European countries banned Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential election campaign rallies, the Turkish leader and his ruling party will hold their first demonstration abroad in Sarajevo. Turkish pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak reported that President Recep...

Emmanuel Macron has proposed negotiations on a “new deal” aimed at curbing Iran’s military power and regional activities, to exist alongside a three year-old agreement that restricts the country’s nuclear programme. Amid the pageantry of a state...

US President Donald Trump and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron addressed reporters after “a frank and productive private meeting.” The alliance between their countries seems to have reached a new, personal level. When US President Donald Trump...

They call him the Trump whisperer. France’s President Emmanuel Macron – who believes his diplomacy, persuasion and personal charm can sway the thinking of his US counterpart, Donald Trump – arrives in Washington on Monday for the deeply...