The new head of the EULEX mission in Kosovo and Metohija is Carabinieri Major General Giovanni Pietro Barbano, who in his rich career already had experience with the Balkan countries. Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, was the first to announce that Italy would take over the EU mission. …

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said ahead of the new round of dialogue on the normalization of relations with Serbia that he will not allow the creation of some form of Republika Srpska in the north of Kosovo, Croatian news agency Hina reported today. At the meeting between Kurti and …

Most of the chiefs of general staff of the region’s armies, including the first man of the Serbian Army, Milan Mojsilović, at some point in their careers served in NATO structures, the official biographies of those people showed. According to the Balkan Security Network portal, out of a total of …

Réponses à la presse de Sergueï Lavrov, ministre des Affaires étrangères de la Fédération de Russie, lors d’une conférence de presse à l’issue de sa visite aux États-Unis dans le cadre de la présidence russe au Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU. Question : Vous avez dit que la Russie ne …

Speaking at a Catholic university in Hungary on Sunday, Pope Francis warned of the risk of technological domination and the threat it poses to culture and to our human ecology. He also spoke about the false freedoms offered by both communism and consumerism, and encouraged people to seek out Christ’s …

China’s revised Counterespionage Law is part of a broader plan to combat threats to state and Party power, presaging greater reputational and data privacy risks for foreign companies, particularly as Beijing’s willingness to economically retaliate against the West slowly grows. On April 26, the Chinese legislature revised the Counterespionage Law …

“Our allies in the Gulf no longer honor the deal that was made decades ago even though we still have a big physical military presence in the Gulf, bigger than ever before, and we keep giving Gulf nations a pass on human rights violations. Too often our Middle East allies …

Did Lebanon’s US-backed army commander exploit the Syrian refugee crisis and incite clashes with them to catapult himself into the highly-contested Lebanese presidency? The US silence on Joseph Aoun’s illegal deportations last week is deafening. Since the 2011 outbreak of war in Syria, hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians have …

Trade wars have been common throughout history, but they often have unintended consequences that undermine their intended goals. From Napoleon to the US and EU – none got it right. In 1806, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte implemented one of the most significant trade blockades in European history, known as …

When the Ukraine war interrupted Beijing’s land route to Europe, Azerbaijan and its neighborhood became a vital alternative pathway, but adversaries may seek to disrupt that. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Beijing’s northern trade route to Europe has been severely curtailed, making the “Middle Corridor” route that …