Baron Bieberhausen. A lonely dinosaur of a past era. Candeid fruit. These are some of the wittier terms Serbia’s president and leader of the ruling Progressive Party of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has used to describe me in press releases, tweets and TV appearances over the past year. The less flattering …

Conservative forces in both Poland and Slovakia used the cover of the pandemic to try to push through stricter limits on abortion this week. They succeeded in Poland, but just failed in Slovakia. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that abortions in the case of a malformation of the …

North Macedonia on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States on security issues linked with new telecommunications technologies, which is expected to indirectly bar China’s tech giants, Huawei and ZTE from the race in the country to build 5G.