The cost of menstrual products remains a little-discussed form of inequality, even though it affects large numbers of women and girls in wealthy Western European countries as well as in the Balkans.

German defence giant is to build a new ammunition and propellant factory in central Romania, as Europe ramps up arms production amid the war in Ukraine. Germany’s Rheinmetall AG CEO Armin Papperger (L ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement and Europe's Green Deal were aimed at taking serious action to mitigate climate change. As the COP30 summit in Brazil approaches, doubts have been raised about EU countries' ...

Thousands of Poles have a grandfather who was forcibly conscripted into the Wehrmacht. Polish politicians are still not ready to properly examine the vexed historical issue, while President Nawrocki ...

An initiative meant to modernise youth health education has turned into an ideological flashpoint. Was it always doomed to fail in Polish culture and amid the current polarisation?

Country's top court rules in favour of ousted Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj regarding his dismissal – also cancelling fresh elections for a replacement for Veliaj, who is facing corruption charges.

After a long crisis, new elections may provide a government at last, but are unlikely to resolve the underlying challenges facing Kosovo – or ease the political disillusionment that has grown within ...

Bulgarian leaders and German company hail deal to build plant manufacturing gunpowder and artillery shells for NATO and EU countries. A worker in the state-owned armament enterprise VMZ-Sopot in ...

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The appointment of Ana Trisic Babic as acting president until November's election follows Milorad Dodik’s removal from office after he was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on ...

Amid public outrage over a recent murder, lawmakers in Romania are drafting a bill to include femicide as a specific offence in the criminal code. Since a young woman, who was made famous by reality ...

Investigators have documented the use of foreign exchange offices in Albania to move drug money, either in crypto or via a centuries-old, trust-based system called Hawala. The area is known as Dollari ...