The Hungarian prime minister’s irascibility gets the better of him, while the Slovak and Polish presidents put their weight behind a plan to grant Ukraine EU candidate status. Horse trading over the EU’s contested sixth sanctions package, mostly the oil embargo against Russia, continued in Hungary this week, with a …

From Moldova to Montenegro, everyone seems to be in a hurry, though perhaps for different reasons. Meanwhile, in some corners of south-east Europe, the gloves are coming off, in more ways than one. In a Hurry Moldova is working hard to strike while the proverbial EU enlargement iron is hot …

Iraqi writer Farouk Yousef pointed out that after the US gave Iran $90 billion following the signing of the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration in 2015… the bulk of the money… was spent on terrorist groups run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and …