A day after a huge commemorative rally in Novi Sad, clashes between ruling party supporters and protesters erupted in front of parliament, resulting in 37 arrests. Riot police separate pro-government ...

After a long crisis, new elections may provide a government at last, but are unlikely to resolve the underlying challenges facing Kosovo – or ease the political disillusionment that has grown within ...

An initiative meant to modernise youth health education has turned into an ideological flashpoint. Was it always doomed to fail in Polish culture and amid the current polarisation?

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. The decision by the National ...

Washington has announced plans to reduce its military footprint in Eastern Europe and remove several hundred soldiers from Romania. NATO exercise at Smardan, near Galati, Romania, February 2025. Photo ...

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Bulgarian leaders and German company hail deal to build plant manufacturing gunpowder and artillery shells for NATO and EU countries. A worker in the state-owned armament enterprise VMZ-Sopot in ...

Montenegro is to end its visa-free regime for Turkish citizens in line with EU requests and following a violent incident involving Turkish citizens, whose number in the country has risen in recent ...

An anti-Turkish demonstration in the capital Podgorica has unsettled members of the country’s Turkish community – and has caused concern in Ankara. The anti-Turkish rally in Podgorica on October 28.

Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes ...

Kosovo Parliament Speaker, Dimal Basha, declared parliament inaugurated after the election of a Serb deputy speaker, despite objections by the biggest Serbian party. Nenad Rasic, newly elected deputy ...

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