Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi tells BIRN that Serbia is still boosting Belgrade-run structures in Kosovo – and the EU-led dialogue won’t make progress until they are dissolved. As the European Union-facilitated dialogue on normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo languishes in a stalemate, Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Besnik …

China’s Huawei has come to dominate the 5G rollout in Cyprus, with risks for data security and independent policymaking that go far beyond the island’s shores, experts warn. In October 2015, two years after a banking crisis left Cyprus in desperate need of new financing, President Nicos Anastasiades visited China …

From Marcos and Soldado to Tito and Chiquito, the drug trafficking ties between Colombia and the Balkans run deep. President Ivan Duque called it “the most severe blow” to Colombian drug trafficking in this century, comparable only to the arrest of drug lord Pablo Escobar three decades ago. The excitement …

In cutting interest rates amid spiralling inflation, the Turkish government under President Erdogan has thrown economic orthodoxy out the window. The poor face getting poorer. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to turn around the Turkish economy has a new victim in Finance Minister Lutfi Elvan, who resigned on December 2. But …

Hungary and Poland lost a key battle in their fight to avoid EU funds being withheld over concerns about the rule of law, but government politicians cling to hope there is still a chance to win the war. On Thursday, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the …

Necesitamos una coalición de democracias que establezca un marco de gobernanza en internet frente a las amenazas de Rusia y China y la arbitrariedad opaca de los gigantes tecnológicos que controlan la red “La democracia no ocurre por accidente. Tenemos que defenderla, luchar por ella, fortalecerla, renovarla”. Es lema de …

Der Umgang mit autoritären Staaten wie China und Russland muss robuster werden. Ein Weiter-so machen weder die Grünen noch die EU-Partner mit. Aus Raider wird Twix, sonst ändert sich nix. Und auf Angela Merkel folgt Olaf Scholz, aber die Außenpolitik bleibt, wie sie ist? Man kann verstehen, warum der neue …

Iran has been insisting on its conditions and demands, including that Washington and the Western powers release frozen Iranian funds before reaching an agreement, according to Tariq Alhomayed, a Saudi journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. He added that Iran was refusing to discuss ballistic missiles, …

E. San Juan, Jr. is an internationally recognized cultural critic and poet in Filipino. He is emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies at several US universities, and lectured recently at the University of the Philippines and Polytechnic University of the Philippines. His most recent books are Carlos …

Australia has formed the anti-China AUKUS (Australia, UK and US) and Quad (Australia, India, US and Japan) Alliances to contain a supposedly aggressive China. In reality a US lackey, nuclear terrorist, climate criminal, serial invader and subversive Australia violates ALL Indo-Pacific countries. A detailed and documented analysis of Australian violation …