The Czech Social Democrat party leadership set a final condition for remaining in the minority government of Andrej Babiš, demanding that his ally, President Miloš Zeman, appoint their nominee for culture minister.
Estonia has been in political turmoil for the past few months as the Estonian Centre Party made the shock decision to invite the right-wing conservative EKRE into new coalition after the liberal Reform Party won the parliamentary elections.
Now that the President has finally appointed a Minister of the Environment, the Lithuanian cabinet is once again made up solely of men. Currently Lithuania is the only EU state without a single female minister. The...
Slovak police seized the mobile phone of an investigative journalist and interrogated her for hours under the pretense of investigating the murder of Jan Kuciak.
Governments' oft-cited argument that they "only want civil society organisations to operate in a transparent manner" is false and misleading.
"In a democracy, everyone must acknowledge parliamentary majorities," EU commissioner Johannes Hahn said after meeting Macedonia’s leaders. Attempts end a political crisis in the Balkans country that unfolded after...
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is calling for the intervention of international organizations to help stem the repeated acts of violence against, among others, foreigners living in Poland and members of...
There are only three women ministers in the newly elected Croatian government. With only three women confirmed in the Sabor (Croatian Parliament), Croatia does not follow the example of developed European countries...
The increasing refugee crisis of the past months is not only a Hungarian problem. However, handling the refugee situation in Hungary is a Hungarian task.
By deploying the army within the country's borders and reclassifying illegal border crossings as a crime as opposed to an offense, the Hungarian government would return to a practice in use prior to 1989. The...