captured state

The former President and SNS together accounted for 90.5% of the recorded time, while the Students’ List accounted for about 6.2%

President accuses foreign intelligence of driving Serbia’s student unrest

Criticism of political figures, government decisions and public statements forms an essential part of independent journalism

Hungary’s prime minister sets a July deadline to remove President Tamás Sulyok and pushes far-reaching constitutional reforms

Most of the manipulative articles praising the country’s President are not signed by their author

AUR is the winner as the cabinet falls, while PSD functions as a tool for those who want to preserve the status quo, with political leaders serving as disposable pawns

More than three decades after Bulgaria's first democratic elections in 1990, vote-buying and controlled voting remain a substantial problem for electoral integrity

The shortlist was known in advance, deliberations were opaque, and key questions about influence networks went unasked

The current administration is pushing to retain paper ballots, while the opposition demands 100% machine voting with electronic tabulation of results

"Greece and Bulgaria exemplify nations where extended one-party rule and pervasive corruption render representational crises chronic"

The episode exposes the limitations of EPPO which executes requests from national authorities even though these appear to be politically motivated

Blagomir Kotsev freed on €100,000 bail after nearly five months in detention, a case that has fuelled domestic fury and concerns at international level