A total of 68 lawmakers from the 120-seat parliament voted in favour of the agreement. Opposition politicians did not participate in the vote and left the room. The deal proposes that North Macedonia’s constitution be amended to recognise a Bulgarian minority. North Macedonian legislators have approved a French-mediated agreement to resolve a conflict with Bulgaria; … Read more
Serbia has criticised Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, but not condemned its military action in Syria. It has not joined the European Union in slapping sanctions on Moscow. Officials say Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was forced to abandon a visit to Serbia after many of his neighbours refused to let his plane pass through their … Read more
With a proposal for a new form of European cooperation that goes beyond the EU, France’s President Emmanuel Macron has revived a decades-old idea, but the details of how such a mechanism would work remain murky and controversial. A wider European club could offer an alternative for coordination on political and security issues for the … Read more
