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Special US Representative to the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar met with President Stevo Pendarovski, PM Zoran Zaev and other key officials. Escobar expressed strong support for quick North Macedonia EU integration and praised the partnership between our countries, the US...

The first National Artificial Intelligence platform in Serbia was launched on Monday at the State Data Centre in the town of Kragujevac. President Aleksandar Vucić said at the opening that the national data centre will allow access to all information...

EU ambassadors have provisionally agreed to blacklist three Russian nationals and one entity, the 'Wagner Group' mercenary outfit, on grounds of human rights abuses in Africa and the Middle East, diplomatic sources said. The decision will be formalised by foreign ministers next Monday. The move comes amid Wagner's increasing presence in Mali, threatening French interests in the region. Europe earlier sanctioned a Russian oligarch, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said to fund Wagner.

The Slovenian Constitutional Court has ruled that a government regulation imposing a recovered-vaccinated mandate on state administration employees contravened the Constitution. The new rule was to come into effect starting from 1 October, but was suspended by the court after...

Milorad Dodik, Serb member of the tripartite BiH Presidency, said it is possible that his party, SNSD, will support the biggest Croatian party, HDZ BIH, in the election boycott next year if there will be no agreement on electoral law....

Germany has urgesd Iran to present realistic proposals in talks over its nuclear programme, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said, adding that offers Tehran made last week almost all violated earlier agreements, Reuters reports. Its proposals were "not a basis for a successful end to talks," she said. "We reviewed the proposals ... carefully and thoroughly and concluded that Iran violated almost all compromises found previously in months of hard negotiations."

Two weeks after the European Parliament agreed its negotiating position on the minimum wage directive, a large majority of national ministers also agreed on a common position, with the only dissent coming from Denmark and Hungary.

The US has said it would send reinforcements to eastern Europe in response to a Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as imposing severe new economic measures, in a warning to Moscow on the eve of talks between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, The Guardian writes. Biden will also make clear to Putin the US will not rule out future Ukrainian membership of Nato, a senior US official said.

Most (Bridge), a party of radical right with a profound relationship with the Catholic Church, is gathering signatures at over 1,200 venues across Croatia for a referendum to regulate the work of the national COVID-19 crisis management team and abolish...

US government officials will boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of China's human rights "atrocities", the White House said on Monday (6 December), just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two superpowers.

The US has announced a diplomatic boycott of China's Winter Olympics in February citing its "egregious human rights abuses" against the Uighur minority and posing the question if the UK and EU allies will follow suit by asking their officials to stay away too. The Chinese embassy in Washington said the move was a "grave distortion of the Olympic Charter". US athletes will still be allowed to compete.

Azomures, Romania’s largest manufacturer of chemical fertilisers, said it would stop production due to the high natural gas prices. The agriculture minister pledged to look for solutions. Azomures, a unit of Swiss conglomerate Ameropa, said on Monday (6 December) that...

Some 277 million passengers travelled by air in the EU in 2020, a decrease of 73 percent on the previous year, according to statistics published by Eurostat on Monday. All EU countries registered a reduction of air transport last year, but the highest drop was observed for Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia. The aviation industry was severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, after countries imposed strict travel restrictions.

The European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the EU is "the biggest donor of Covid-19 vaccines in the world", after it shared more than 350 million doses with the rest of the world. She also said that the majority of these vaccines, around 300 million, where shared via the international aid programme COVAX. Some 44 percent of the world population is currently vaccinated, she said.

The majority of EU citizens are worried about the increasing role of digital tools and the internet in the society, a new Eurobarometer survey showed Monday. 56 percent of respondents are worried about cyber-attacks, 53 percent are nervous about their children's safety and 46 percent are concerned about the use of private data. 41 percent expect that the internet and the use of digital tools will bring them advantages.

The European Central Bank said Monday it plans to redesign the euro banknotes, after 20 years since their creation. The process will end in 2024, and will involve public opinion. "Euro banknotes are here to stay. They are a tangible and visible symbol that we stand together in Europe, particularly in times of crisis, and there is still a strong demand for them," ECB president Christine Lagarde said.

Swift approval of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is being eyed by Czechia, as the country hopes this will convince the unvaccinated to take the jab. According to the government, protein-based vaccines such as Novavax could convince unvaccinated people to change...

Work ministers reached a common position over EU draft law on minimum wages in Europe, without the support of Denmark and Hungary. The agreement comes after months of negotiations - and strong opposition led by Scandinavian countries.

Slovenia's anti-corruption commissioner Robert Šumi said the country misses out on €3.5bn a year due to corruption, while the EU chief corruption prosecutor Laura Kövesi visited the country.

Lithuania has asked for EU solidarity against China's "economic coercion" over its backing for Taiwan.