EU politicians celebrate spring in Hungary and prospects for Ukraine improve, but Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic contemplates a lonelier future without Budapest’s architect of ‘illiberal democracy’ at his ...

Yet because the election system is designed to favour strong parties, a two-thirds parliamentary majority seems to have become the norm in Hungary, which contains its own dangers.

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at future goals as well as lost opportunities from the past. Vjosa Osmani answers questions after delivering a speech in Berlin, October 2025.

Donald Trump Jr’s visit to Banja Luka for a business panel, held under heavy security, is seen as part of Republika Srpska’s efforts to cultivate ties with Washington. Donald Trump Jr speaking at the ...

Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza. In early March, ...

A probe by European prosecutors into an alleged organised fraud scheme involving EU agricultural funds, which is claimed to have included former and current Greek ministers and MPs, has prompted the ...

Witness accounts and watchdog reports point to widespread physical and verbal abuse, neglect, restraint and sedation in understaffed care homes in Croatia for the elderly and those with mental ...

One man was killed, two others were captured and two police officers were wounded after a gunfight erupted near a building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. The building that houses the ...

The two countries’ failure to maintain liaisons to the EU’s criminal justice agency – partly for political reasons – is a setback to vital cooperation against cross-border organised crime groups. In ...

Viktor Orban toured military units near the Serbian border the day after the Belgrade authorities said they found explosives near a gas pipeline to Hungary – and denied the incident was staged to ...

The Greek government will ban children under 15 years old from using TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, saying the goal is 'to push the EU in this direction as well'. Photo illustration: ...

Kosovo will face a much more hostile international environment if far-right parties gain more power in core EU states like France and Germany, while the US under Trump remains indifferent to the ...