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Bosnia's problematic party scene will delay reform

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BOSNIA

Party congresses' ratcheting up of political tensions.

Many-sided opposition faces Kosovo election victor

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KOSOVO

The anti-establishment party took a resounding 47.9% of the vote, and will now form a government. The established parties performed poorly, the second-placed Democratic Party of…

No party will dominate after Turkish Cypriot election

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CYPRUS

CYPRUS: No party will dominate after Turks' election

Hungary's Fidesz may change strategy vs Jobbik

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HUNGARY

The threat to ruling Fidesz from radical Jobbik.

Slovak elections may yield a broad centrist coalition

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SLOVAKIA

Slovakia is facing early general elections in September, with former Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Direction-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) hoping to regain power. Progressive Slovakia…

Disparate new Montenegrin government looks fragile

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MONTENEGRO

Decades of one-party rule by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) ended at the August 30 elections, which delivered a stinging rebuke to veteran strongman Milo Djukanovic…

Montenegro’s minority government may bring stability

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MONTENEGRO

The country’s first minority government, led by the green Coalition for Reformed Action (URA) party, marks a new and potentially more positive phase in a lengthy political crisis…

Bulgaria heads towards yet another early election

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BULGARIA

Donev was appointed by President Rumen Radev, whose influence on the caretaker government -- which has the purely technical mandate of organising elections -- will be high…

Opposition will target Skopje's ethnic Albanian allies

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NORTH MACEDONIA

In an interview to Alsat, the TV channel that has most influence among North Macedonia's Albanians, Mickoski argued that overcoming the present government was of common interest…

Moldova will keep Russia ties despite drift towards EU

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MOLDOVA

A merger with Romania is unrealistic but is a subset of a broader pro-European agenda supported by the Democratic Party-led coalition government and bitterly opposed by President…