Eurasia Press & News

While the Right may claim victory in Sunday’s local elections in Croatia, the capital is tilting to the Left.Croatia’s ruling conservatives look set to win big in local elections on Sunday, but a relatively new party on the left – ‘Mozemo!’, or ‘We can!’ – may grab the headlines if …

Tomislav Tomasevic’s imminent victory in Zagreb matches a pattern emerging across Europe – where big cities choose radical mayors – but not ones drawn from the traditional parties of the left. The Croatian state’s founding father, the warrior-politician and nationalist Franjo Tudjman, must be spinning in his grave, which lies …

Law and Justice unveiled new economic measures designed to benefit the poorest, in what can be seen as a major offensive by the governing party ahead of the 2023 general election. Back in 2015, when it first came to power, Law and Justice (PiS) presented voters with a catchy proposal: …

A UN probe into the conflict in Libya led investigators to a small airstrip south of Belgrade, where an ‘agricultural’ plane – modified to carry rockets and traced to US security contractor Erik Prince – was serviced in 2018. Gas Aviation’s hangar is located at the small Rudine grass strip …

Eni and bp announced that they have entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to progress detailed discussions on combining their upstream portfolios in Angola, including all their oil, gas and LNG interests in the country. The companies believe that combining their efforts in a new joint venture company …

Since the fall of the VMRO-DPMNE regime and the Nikola Gruevski – Saso Mijalkov duo, the Republic of North Macedonia has made historical steps forward in its national and social-political development. Upon their arrival to power, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the Social-Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) had to face …

This myth, if it is one, goes back to 1990 — and just over three decades later, it continues to form a central grievance in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s testy narrative about Moscow’s ties with the West. It’s the question of NATO expansion — an unhealed scab that, with Russian-Western …

On March 15, the China’s National Bureau of Statistics released some of the country’s economic data for January and February. In terms of investment, consumption, and industrial production, the figures for the first two months this year all showed double-digit year-on-year growth. It should be emphasized that the first two …

Israel’s war against Hamas continues with IDF strikes and rocket fire despite an eight-hour lull overnight. Hamas’s Izzadin Al-Qassam Brigades targeted a bus that had been carrying Israeli soldiers north of the Gaza Strip with an anti-tank missile and subsequently launched a barrage of mortar shells towards the site where …

Lebanon’s shaky political situation was dealt another blow Wednesday when Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe submitted his resignation to President Michel Aoun after insulting Gulf states in an interview earlier this week and causing a diplomatic crisis that has refused to die down. “I hope this subject will now be closed …