Bulgaria’s new prime minister, Kiril Petkov, has made promising noises about ending a veto currently preventing North Macedonia from opening EU accession talks. But can he deliver? In 1971, the CIA coined the term “Macedonian Syndrome” in...
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Central Europe Polish President Andrzej Duda has imposed a state of emergency in parts of two regions bordering Belarus amid an influx of migrants from the former Soviet...
Central Europe Poland’s prime minister insisted on Tuesday that efforts by Middle Eastern migrants to enter the country from neighbouring Belarus are part of a plot by...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s largest political grouping gave up efforts to lead a minority government on Tuesday following a razor-thin victory in last month’s...
Central Europe The Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek, has said the government is looking at ways...
A party founded just a year ago by a popular singer and TV personality won Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. But who is Slavi Trifonov? And why is he so popular...
Central Europe The European Union’s top court on Thursday ruled that Poland’s system for disciplining judges undercut the bloc’s laws, part of an...
A populist party wins an election in Bulgaria but stands little chance of forming a government. Bulgarians voted in the country’s second parliamentary election of...
Bulgaria’s former prime minister, Boyko Borissov, has been courting Macedonians with Bulgarian passports, but his party could be heading for defeat in July...
Central Europe Proposed legislative changes that would ban non-European ownership of Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc...
North Macedonia’s prime minister, Zoran Zaev, could have made a tactical blunder in meeting with former Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov on a visit to Sofia. North...
A snap parliamentary election in Bulgaria, set to be held in July, is likely to be as inconclusive as April’s ballot. Unless the country’s largest parties...
