On 21 May, Russian President Vladimir Putin named a new Cabinet, keeping several key ministers, including finance, foreign and defence, at their posts, but also replacing the most unpopular ones.
The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) elected, on early morning of 21 May, a new leadership and took a decisive step towards the rightist segment of the political spectrum and in a symbolic way, by returning a bust of...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released on 15 May its judgment in the case Labsi vs. Slovakia (Case no. 33809/08). The ECtHR upheld the principle of absolute guarantee in article 3, but it also conveyed the message that the expulsion by a country of people, convicted of terrorism in a second country, was not justified even under...
François Hollande was sworn in as president of France on 15 May to become the first Socialist to hold the highest post in the country in 17 years. Hollande announced that his first actions would be to name his prime minister and then to fly to Berlin for...
Turkey aims to promote NATO membership for Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Georgia at the Alliance Chicago summit next week. Ankara stressed that NATO membership of these countries has a twofold effect – internally and externally.