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The United States Department of the Treasury has sanctioned former MP Aqif Rakipi and media owner Ylli Ndroqi for threatening “the stability of the region through corruption, criminal activity, and other destabilising behaviour.” Rakipi was an MP from Elbasan for the...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed his support for enlargement during a press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Berlin. On Sunday, Rama touched down in Berlin, where he took part in an official welcoming ceremony. He met with...

Ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley in southern Serbia are suffering under “silent ethnic cleansing” following elections that were “neither free nor democratic,” Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said. Over 6,200 Serbian citizens of Albanian ethnicity have been illegally...

North Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and former Director of the Department for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) Sašo Mijalkov have been publicly sanctioned by the US Department of State. Gruevski fled North Macedonia because of the judicial prosecution and...

The UK has sanctioned Tripartite BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik and Republika Srpska President Željka Cvijanović, while the US has sanctioned former BiH Chief Prosecutor Gordana Tadić, from RS and Asim Sarajlić, an MP from the biggest Bosniak party SDA....

There was never a plan to kill former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty in 2020, Serbian intelligence forces (BIA) said after an investigation on Swiss state television said they planned to do so and blame Kosovo. Marty was a member of...

Serbia will likely begin to align with the EU’s positions in international organisations and slowly introduce some sanctions against Russia, Igor Novaković, director of research at the International and Security Affairs Center (ISAC Fund), said on Monday. “Serbia will increasingly...

If a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh is signed in Brussels rather than in Moscow, it will be another Russian geopolitical defeat, writes Nikola Mikovic.

The LNG Croatia company stated on Monday that existing and prospective clients could submit proposals to allocate new free capacities for the regasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at this facility at Omišalj on the Croatian island of Krk. “We...

The government will soon launch multiple measures as part of an aid package worth €3.5 billion to support vulnerable populations and SMEs as prices continue to rise. The first measures will apply as of 1 May and run at least...

Hungarian IT company 4iG, which has won a series of recent public contracts, has merged its telecommunications portfolio with Antenna Hungária, increasing its stake in the group to 76.78%, the company told Hungarian national press agency MTI on Monday, Telex reported....

The plane crash in which former President Lech Kaczyński died in 2010 was not an accident but an assassination, the long-awaited report published Monday by the subcommittee investigating the Smolensk air disaster has found. The report came a day after...

The government is trying to lower the inflation rate, which reached 9.8% in March, finance minister María Jesús Montero said on Monday. The government is pulling out all the stops to control inflation – triggered by high gas and electricity...

Italy and Algeria agreed to boost gas supply to Italy in an effort to cut reliance on Russian gas after Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi met with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers on Monday. “Our governments have signed a...

An Italian judge on Monday suspended proceedings against four Egyptian officials accused of having kidnapped, tortured and killed the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. The decision comes after the four Egyptians refused to cooperate with Italian investigators....

The government will protect citizens’ income through a price control strategy and not through measures that could contribute to an inflationary spiral, Eurico Brilhante Dias, the parliamentary leader of the socialist party, PS, said on Monday. Brilhante Dias defended the...

The health authority is increasing its stock of iodine tablets based on the advice of the country’s Emergency Management Agency, predicting a nuclear incident in Denmark’s immediate area, TV station TV2 has reported. The Danish health authority said that two...

There is broad support in the Swedish parliament to raise the defence budget to 2% of the country’s GDP following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Swedish press agency TT has reported. Sweden’s Armed Forces have submitted their rearmament timetable to the government,...

The “Z” symbol associated with support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine should be banned, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Ireland has said after a pro-Russian rally was held in Dublin this weekend. According to footage posted online, a convoy of...

The government has ruled out introducing a priority system for perishable goods entering the UK at Dover following disruption at the UK’s main port. “I don’t think it’s a realistic option at such short notice,” environment secretary George Eustice said...