President of Kosovo says his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem if Israel recognizes it as an independent state.

Warsaw’s changes to the judicial system prompt a reaction from one of the EU’s leading legal bodies.

The European Union has not learnt the lessons of Brexit and could force Italy to reconsider its membership of the bloc, a senior government adviser has told The Telegraph. Ignazio Corrao, adviser to Luigi Di Maio, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Five Star Movement, attacked the arrogance of the European Commission and EU leaders for making no changes since Britain’s vote to leave the bloc.

As the Hungarian prime minister built an “illiberal state,” creating a template for the far right, center-right leaders in Brussels did little to stop him.

Poland belongs in the European Union but should be careful not to be “infected by social diseases” that dominate the bloc, ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Sunday. Speaking at a party convention ahead of local elections in October, Poland’s most influential decision-maker laid out the broad campaign priorities of the PiS. He defended his party’s democratic record and accused critics of serving “powerful interests and making deals with the mighty of the world”, in an apparent jab at the close ties between the liberal opposition in Poland and Brussels.

Norway is the most socialist country in the world. It's also a much better place to live than the United States.

France voted to outlaw sexual harassment on the streets, leaving cat-callers and aggressively lecherous individuals facing potential on-the-spot fines of up to 750 euros as part of tougher legislation to fight sexual violence.

Poland's ex-finance minister Jan Rostowski says the opposition may be repositioning its economic policies to meet changing political realities. He explains how his party should proceed after Kaczynski changed the game.

The European Commission has taken new steps to address concerns about judicial independence and the rule of law in Poland.

Confused? So are Czechs.

At the behest of the US, the UN regular budget for 2018-2019 has been reduced by $285 million per year. But the world receives an astounding return on its investments in the UN, and member countries should be investing far more, not less, in its organizations and programs.

In a once-progressive corner of Europe, a far-right ruling party is tightening its grip, risking the nation’s suspension from the EU for anti-democratic policies. Paul Waldie looks at how Poles ended up here, and why some want to go even further

The European Union proposed Thursday giving millions of people in the 28-nation bloc better access to safe tap water and reduce water consumption via wasteful plastic bottles. The legislation proposed by the European Commission, the EU executive, aims to make safe drinking water a citizen right in line with social rights adopted at a summit in Gothenburg, Sweden in November.

The European Union has warned Albania against "interference" in neighboring countries and Serbian officials accused Tirana of wanting to build a "Greater Albania," after the Albanian prime minister said his country and Kosovo could one day have a single president.

With Xi Jinping's great power comes great irresponsibility.

President Donald Trump, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday, attacked his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton, one of his predecessors in President George W. Bush, and praised China's President Xi Jinping for his recent move eliminating term limits.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used legal means and emergency powers to turn Turkey into an authoritarian system. A new law to rein in the web is next on his agenda.

Rex W. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, had been among President Trump’s most well-regarded cabinet choices. He is replaced by Mike Pompeo, currently the C.I.A. director.

In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to be the promised land. Not anymore.

The party of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a resounding victory in Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, drawing cheers among fellow nationalists in Poland while renewing fears of creeping authoritarianism among other EU members.

Trump told Iran and many of our allies to go fuck themselves today because he hates Obama and now who knows the world might end soon but anyway I love y'all.

Europe’s biggest challenge in resisting US sanctions on Iran is not legal or even geopolitical. It is psychological: European leaders act as if the US still cares about a trans-Atlantic alliance of shared interests, values, and approaches.

Don't call it a populist revolt. What's happening in Hungary and Poland is creeping authoritarianism.

As Italy’s new government prepares to challenge the European Union, Poland has a timely lesson for how quickly a particular brand of politics can change a country.

Thousands of Polish nurses, caregivers and workmen leave the country for employment. That has consequences: Many Polish children grow up without parents, who are gone for months or even years at a time.

Role would be a ‘great opportunity’ for the country, Mateusz Morawiecki says.

Critics call it a "dark day" as an EU committee adopts two controversial changes to copyright law.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn calls for Hungary to be suspended or expelled from the EU because of its

The question remains: why is the US Treasury carrying on with this transparent charade about how ISIS was equipped with hundreds of Toyota vehicles?

Demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities across the country as the right-wing governing party consolidated its power and escalated a clash with the European Union.

The head of Poland's Supreme Court has vowed to defy a controversial new law forcing her and dozens of senior judges to retire early. Chief Justice Prof Malgorzata Gersdorf has been told she must step down at midnight in line with new legislation. But a spokesman for the Supreme Court said she would go to work as normal on Wednesday. Prof Gersdorf earlier branded the reforms, which require judges to retire at 65 instead of 70, a "purge".

US President Donald Trump's closeness with totalitarian leaders and indifference towards traditional liberal allies could be a strategy to reposition America against a rising China.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t his long history of diplomatic gaffes that brought down the U.K. foreign secretary.

With its attempt to purge the country's courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland's right-wing ruling party passed another milestone on the path towards establishment of a one-party state.

A foreign diplomat has got away with skipping out on paying $20,000 to her former landlord after using diplomatic immunity to dodge the cost. Eva Tvarozkova​, deputy chief of mission for the European Union (EU) Delegation to New Zealand, found herself before the Wellington Tenancy Tribunal for $14,314 in unpaid rent and incidentals, plus $6000 bond for her former house at Karaka Bays above Wellington harbour.