Politics

The Vojvodina branch of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party, SRS, has filed an initiative to open a new Serbian-Russian Humanitarian Centre in Serbia’s northern province, alongside the one in Nis in the south. Deputies of the...

Romania’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former finance minister Darius Valcov to eight years in prison for money laundering and influence peddling, in one of the country’s most high-profile graft cases. Romania’s Supreme Court on Thursday...

After protracted talks, Angela Merkel’s conservatives have made a deal with the Social Democrats over a new coalition contract in Germany. The SPD confirmed this in a message to its members, who will have the final...

Kim Jong-un’s sister will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea on Friday, Seoul’s unification ministry has said. Pyongyang notified Seoul that Kim Yo-jong would be accompanying Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s nominal head of state, along with...

A strange and worrisome silence settled over Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa after Houthi rebels seized power in broad daylight one September day in 2014. For weeks, rumors had been floating that something of this sort would...

After Bosnian Croats called for the establishment of a third, Croat-ed entity in the country, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, warned that this could cause armed conflict. Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the...

Some 61 per cent of Macedonians support a solution to the dispute with Greece over their country’s name, if it speeds up Macedonia’s entry into NATO and the EU, a survey by the Skopje-based Institute for...

Silvio Berlusconi has pledged to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants from Italy should his centre-right coalition enter government after elections on 4 March, as tensions simmer over the shooting of six Africans by a far-right extremist on Saturday....

Ruling out any continued customs union with the EU is “a profound mistake”, the Labour chair of the Brexit committee, Hilary Benn, has said, warning that it could both harm the economy and risk conflict in Northern...

The only surviving suspected member of the jihadi group that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks has refused to answer questions at the start of his trial in Belgium on separate terrorism charges. Salah Abdeslam stands accused...