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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference on Wednesday (Jan. 12) that there is a “real risk” of new armed conflict in Europe amid tensions between the alliance and Russia. Stoltenberg’s remarks came following the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) in Brussels which lasted four hours-roughly an hour longer than expected. The NRC meeting marked the second stage in

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday (Dec. 22) he expects negotiations between Russia and the U.S. and NATO to begin in January. “It has been agreed that at the very beginning of next year, the first round (of talks) should be bilateral contact between our negotiators and American ones,” Russia’s top diplomat said in an interview with RT. Lavrov said plans were

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis nominated the former defence minister and retired army general Nicolae Ciuca as the next Prime Minister on Monday (Nov. 22) after consultations with parliamentary parties and groups at the Cotroceni Palace. The Southeast European country has been in political paralysis since September when a centrist coalition was ousted in a no-confidence vote. Unlike the first time he was

As a dispute between the EU and Belarus rages, thousands of people remain stranded on both sides of the Belarus-Poland border. They are mostly from conflict-torn regions of the Middle East like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, hoping of crossing into the EU via Poland. Brussels officials have accused Mink of orchestrating a scheme to entice migrants with the false promise of

Bulgaria heads to the polls on Sunday in the country’s third parliamentary election this year after the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) failed to form a government following July 11’s inconclusive parliamentary polls. The centre-right GERB party led by former Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov- which had been in power for most of the previous decade- leads opinion polls on around 24% support. We

Talat Xhaferi, Speaker of North Macedonia’s parliament, scheduled a vote of no-confidence of the government of former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev for Thursday (Nov. 11) at 11 am. Zaev, who came to power in 2017, announced his resignation on October 30, just hours after his center-left Social Democratic Union (SDSM) party suffered defeat in mayoral elections in towns including the capital Skopje.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi welcomed world leaders on Saturday (Oct. 30), as Rome hosts its first G20 summit, with the Covid-19 crisis, economic recovery and  cooperation on climate action, front and centre on the two-day agenda. “It is clear that multilateralism is the best answer to the problems that we face today. In many ways it is the only possible answer.