Politics

Theresa May was preparing to warn the EU that she would not sign up to “anything that threatens the constitutional integrity of the UK” as Boris Johnsonwas accused of hinting that a hard border could be reintroduced...

A top national security official told lawmakers on Tuesday he had not been directed by Donald Trump to disrupt Russian efforts to meddle in US elections, and that Vladimir Putin had come to the conclusion there...

Federal ministers must exercise restraint in disputes between parties, Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled. The complaint against Education Minister Johanna Wanka was brought by the far-right opposition AfD party. The Karlsruhe-based court ruled Tuesday that Wanka...

In his last interview with BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, the Kosovo Serb politician murdered in January, named Milan Radoicic as the key figure and a real power-holder in the Serb-run north of Kosovo. He asked...

A five-hour truce has begun in the Syrian rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta to allow people to escape the area being targeted in a fierce offensive by Syria’s Moscow-backed government. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered...

Campaigners expressed frustration after Croatia said that three wartime missing persons about whom Serbia’s president recently handed over information had actually been found beforehand. A prominent Croatian missing persons association claimed on Monday that Serbian institutions...

The UN war crimes court will deliver its appeal verdict on Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj on April 11, but he has vowed not to return to The Hague to hear it. The Mechanism for International...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That quote, attributed alternately to the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu and the Renaissance writer and philosopher Machiavelli, might have been on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mind on...

Arriving for a meeting with EU foreign ministers, Federica Mogherini, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, said Saturday’s UN resolution calling for a 30-day truce was a “necessary and encouraging step, but a first step.” “Now that resolution...

The news broke at three minutes to four on a chilly winter’s afternoon in a two-sentence bulletin. “The Communist party of China central committee proposed to remove the expression that the president and vice-president of the People’s...