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Mozemo! Dashes Hopes of Croatian Leftist Alliance

There will be no left-wing pre-election coalition in Croatia to counter the main ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

This was made clear after the opposition Mozemo! [We Can!] party announced it will go alone into the next elections, rejecting a pre-election alliance with the opposition Social Democrats, SDP.

Croatian MPs Recognise Soviet-Era Ukrainian Famine as Genocide

A memorial ceremony at a monument to Holodomor victims in Kyiv, November 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO.

Croatian MPs unanimously voted on Wednesday to adopt a declaration recognising the Holodomor of 1932-33 as a crime of genocide committed by the Soviet authorities against the Ukrainian people.

It took 30 years but the ring road around Belgrade is finally open for traffic!

The opening of the section will also be attended by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui.

Some 7,701 artifacts returned to Türkiye since 2018

While efforts to trace and identify cultural artifacts smuggled abroad through illegal excavations and illegal means continue, a total of 7,701 cultural assets have been returned to the country since 2018, in which 2,956 of them returned in 2023.

Council of Europe: Turkey’s Prison Population Rises Beyond 300,000

Turkish soldiers stand guard in front of the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners are held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

Star chef Ana Ros puts Slovenia on food map

When Ana Ros started as a chef in Slovenia, all she had were some cookbooks and a bit of a "crazy" personality, as she herself puts it.

Now the self-taught cook, who was named the world's best woman chef in 2017, has her two Michelin stars tattooed on her fingers, and is helping make her small Alpine homeland one of Europe's prime gastronomic destinations.

Bulgaria’s PM has made a 6-Month Schengen-Related Commitment to the Dutch PM

"The Netherlands is carefully monitoring the actions for judicial reform in Bulgaria and appreciates the efforts in this direction", it became known from a telephone conversation between Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov and his Dutch colleague Mark Rutte, reports the government press service.

Euractiv: Bulgaria enters Schengen in 2 Stages

Bulgaria will in all probability enter Schengen by the end of the year and the admission will be in two stages. In October, border control at the airports will be abolished, and in January 2024 - the ground control as well.

This was reported by the Brussels-based publication Euractiv, citing sources from diplomatic circles in Brussels, the Bulgarian parliament and the government.

Croatian PM: Radioactive Refuse Storage Site Won’t Harm Bosnia

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic assured neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina at a joint government session in Zagreb on Tuesday that the storage of radioactive items at a facility two kilometres from the Bosnian border poses no danger.

In Montenegro, Memories of Pain and Generosity on the Refugee Road

Dejan, then 20, had been nearing the end of his military service in Kosovo, then a southern province of Serbia, when NATO launched air strikes to halt a brutal Serbian counter-insurgency war. At the time, Serbia and Montenegro were all that was left of Yugoslavia, still joined together after the other four republics - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia - had seceded.