2 Kosovar men held in detention on terror suspicions

A Kosovo court decided Monday to continue detaining two Albanian men who allegedly joined extremist groups in Syria.

The Pristina court decided in separate cases in favor of prosecutors’ requests to leave the suspects in detention for a month.

Erdogan writes off Greece’s Mitsotakis, maintains stance on NATO expansion

Enraged by the Greek premier’s remarks to US Congress against arms sales to Turkey, Erdogan denounces Greece, along with Sweden and Finland, for supporting terrorism.

Opening up a new battlefront with NATO allies, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced late Monday that he had “written off” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for lobbying the US Congress against military sales to Turkey.

Unde are dreptate Viktor Orban

Premierul Viktor Orban este știe să profite de pe urma a ceea ce prezintă electoratului drept pericole existențiale pentru Ungaria. Fie că este vorba despre demonizarea opoziției care sacrifică valorile tradiționale ale Ungariei pe altarul lui George Soros sau LGBT, fie că e vorba despre atragerea țării într-un război cu Rusia, dacă Ungaria va susține militar Ucraina, Orban a știut sa profite de aceste contexte pentru a rămâne la putere vreme de patru mandate consecutive. Prezentându-l pe Orban ca răul suprem din UE, criticii nu fac decât să urmeze strategia celui mult hulit, schimbându-i doar sensul.

Erdogan writes off Greece’s Mitsotakis, maintains stance on NATO expansion

Enraged by the Greek premier’s remarks to US Congress against arms sales to Turkey, Erdogan denounces Greece, along with Sweden and Finland, for supporting terrorism.

Opening up a new battlefront with NATO allies, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced late Monday that he had “written off” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for lobbying the US Congress against military sales to Turkey.

Greece’s Press Is the Latest Casualty of Mitsotakis’ War on Migrants

Earlier this month, Journalists Without Borders’ annual World Press Freedom Index placed Greece last among European Union countries for press freedom, citing a number of challenges faced by journalists in the country. The index suggests that Greece is a country in which democratic norms are in serious crisis.

Bosnia’s Dangerous Path

How U.S. Policy Is Making a Bad Situation Worse

In the Balkans, and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, images from Ukraine of besieged cities, massacres, and mass displacement are re-traumatizing a society that has never been allowed to heal after the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Along with the rest of the world, Bosnians have watched the razing of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol with horror. But having lived through the siege of Sarajevo and similar atrocities, Bosnians recognize the velocity and brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine more viscerally than others­­—and it puts them on edge.