A change in government in Hungary could spell the end of a comfortable exile for North Macedonia’s fugitive ex-prime minister, but extraditing Nikola Gruevski would take more than political will alone. Afugitive from justice in his home country of North Macedonia, and a political asylum seeker in Hungary under the …

Morawiecki ran up against a European ‘wall of resistance’ of infuriated MEPs, who accused him of lying and attempting to dismantle the very structure of the EU. To BIRN, they also laid out their fears for the future. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki came to office promising to be an …

Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did not arrive. Instead, the US government proceeded to spend big on the military and engage in a series of …