За пореден път в българската история, българите устояхме на опитите да бъде смачкан колективният ни стремеж към свобода, справедливост и национален просперитет. Устояхме на 12 години, простащина облечена във власт. Устояхме безправие и правен нихилизъм. Устояхме дирижиран разпад на държавността. Устояхме омаломощаване на държавните институции. Устояхме културен и духовен геноцид. …

Political veteran Sali Berisha will bid to take back control of the opposition Democrats on Saturday, but in doing so he risks splitting the party in two.Tirana’s 22,500-seat ‘Air Albania’ stadium will host a grudge match on Saturday, but there won’t be a football in sight. Instead, a 77-year-old former …

Bulgarian politics enter a new phase with ‘We Continue the Change’ heading a coalition under Kiril Petkov as Prime Minister – but the political diversity of the new cabinet could be a major problem.The formation of a new government in Bulgaria in early December understandably brought a new sense of …

Under pressure from economic crisis, the rigid political status quo in Turkey is shifting – and the once frustrated opposition scents an opportunity. Turkey’s political landscape used to be likened to a frozen scene from the Ice Age. Across the political spectrum, voting behaviour seemed locked in a status quo …

Imagine you go to pay for your morning coffee and your stored-value card returns an error message, or the wallet in the payments app on your phone isn’t opening because the company providing the payment service has gone bankrupt. Worse, what if you live in a rural area and the …

Forty years have passed this fall since my first travel to Lebanon and it happened ever since to return there many times and to spend more than four years in the beautiful Cedars country; I had during the time the opportunity of meeting relevant Lebanese personalities such as the late …

A top Russian diplomat has warned that Moscow will respond “militarily” and deploy tactical nuclear weapons, if NATO does not guarantee an end to its eastward expansion. His remarks raise the stakes even higher in the confrontation between Russia and Western powers just days after U.S. President Joe Biden and …

The Libyan electoral commission has confirmed that it will publish the list of candidates for the presidency only after certain legal issues have been resolved, and most of the Libyan figures involved in the process will take part in a scheduled day, with politicians, analysts, and ambassadors. They all say …

Oh, to be a Cold War warrior again! I always felt a bit sorry for those politicians, academics, soldiers and journalists who had hitched their careers to the onward march of the Cold War. It was satisfying. There was a clear enemy. The complex arithmetic on which side had what …

As the war in Ukraine heads into its eighth year, many fear that Moscow may be preparing a large-scale military escalation. Over the past few weeks, American, European, and NATO allies, as well as Ukrainian officials, have warned that Russia has massed significant military forces and equipment near its border …