Brexit: EU cancels UK bids for European Capital of Culture 2023
A looming Brexit makes Britain ineligible to host the EU’s year-long cultural title, the EU has confirmed, describing it as
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Bosnians welcome Mladic conviction, but justice unlikely to reconcile divided region
Ratko Mladic, the former general in charge of Bosnian Serb forces during the Balkans war in the early 1990s has
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Nato Foundation to hold conference on Western Balkans in December 2017
At the beginning of December, Italy’s capital Rome will host a conference entitled “The Western Balkans at a crossroads”, organised
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Macedonia government ready to remove statues from Skopje, rename airport
A list of statues and monuments that should be immediately withdrawn from Skopje’s city centre is in the hands of
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EU: Mugabe’s resignation ‘shows he has listened to the people’s voice’
The decision by Robert Mugabe to stand down as president of Zimbabwe shows that he has listened to the people’s
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Hungary: War of words between George Soros and Fidesz heats up
Hungary’s governing right-wing party Fidesz on November 20 slammed claims by US financier George Soros that the government had lied in
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Poland: Jaroslaw Kaczynski the next PM?
Poland’s ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is widely expected by the party insiders to replace PM
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Amsterdam to host European Medicines Agency after Brexit, defeating rivals including Sofia
European Union cabinet ministers from 27 member countries – all member states, excluding the UK – decided on November 20
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Nato apologises to Turkey for targeting Erdogan and Ataturk in training exercise
Nato apologised on November 17 for naming enemy targets in a military computer training exercise after Turkey’s beloved founder Mustafa
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