Eurasia

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that his government will “teach America a lesson” in the upcoming Turkish elections next month, taking aim at Washington after its Ambassador visited the leading opposition candidate. Speaking at the opening ceremony of his ally, the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) youth branch, the …

A new film looks at the harm done by the practice in Italy of ‘informal readmissions’ by which refugees and migrants were swiftly sent back over the border with Slovenia in 2020. Ignoring a court ruling that suspended the practice, Italy’s new government says it will be revived.

Ahead of the war crimes trial of ex-President Hashim Thaci and three other former guerrilla leaders, there is widespread distrust of the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which many Kosovo Albanians see as biased. Sejdi Zymeri’s house in the village of Likovc/Likovac is close to where the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA …

[The following is excerpted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there’s little time to lose in tackling the climate crisis. UN …

A state actor’s involvement in the blast of the Nord Stream pipelines last year is the “absolute main scenario”, said the Swedish prosecutor investigating the attack. A Reuters report — State actor involvement in Nord Stream pipeline attacks is ‘main scenario’, says Swedish investigator, April 6, 2023, — said: A …

The President of the People’s Party, Vuk Jeremić, said that yesterday the implementation of the “French-German” plan for Kosovo and Metohija began with the signing of the Declaration on Enforced and Enforced Disappeared Persons during the 1999 War, which could cost Serbia hundreds of millions, if not billions of euros …

Counting sheep was the best traditional natural recipe found to get you to sleep if you can’t sleep. They say that shepherds in medieval Britain still counted sheep, counted, counted, every time they went to sleep, and that’s how they finally got to SNA. In modern Serbia, with a similar …

The UK government’s second Economic Crime Plan is welcome, but do enforcement agencies have the arsenal to deliver? When the UK government’s first ever whole-of-government plan for tackling the myriad harms of economic crime to the UK wrapped up in July 2022, we gave its impact a mixed scorecard. Although …

The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

In other news, plans are in the works for Hungarian PM to visit Ukraine; Slovakia’s National Security Authority claims acting interior minister illegally accessed classified EU and NATO documents; and Poland gets 2 new ministers. Rental housing prices in the Czech Republic have risen dramatically over recent years, driven higher …