Bulgaria’s new role as president of the Council of the EU has started with a bang – quite literally.
The resignation of Milo Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro since 1991, is the logical end result of a political establishment whose contradictions could no longer hold the country together.
The fact that Mafia groups have been handed construction contracts in places like Amatrice - recently destroyed by an earthquake - shows just how far successive governments' anti-Mafia rhetoric is from reality.
Confronted with the suffering of Syrian refugees, mourning world heritage seems academic at best. But Islamic State must not succeed in its cultural cleansing.
In the name of 'fighting terror', African strongmen are strengthening their hold on power.
Unlike France, Italy or the Netherlands, the crisis of Romania’s elites has not led to a rise in xenophobic politics but to a digital revolution that challenges traditional assumptions about democratic change. Euro elections landscape, 2014.
