Bloomberg Croatia’s top diplomat rejected President Zoran Milanovic’s threat to veto the accession of Sweden and Finland into Nato, vowing that the government would ensure they were brought into the alliance. “We won’t be the only nation to defy the principles and values of Nato, which we fought so hard to join,” Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman told reporters in ...

Bloomberg Kosovo’s announcement that it plans to join Europe’s top human rights body triggered a protest from Serbia, which has vowed to halt the attempts at international recognition of its neighbour, whose sovereignty it rejects. “Serbia can’t do much, but will fight on the international scene for further withdrawals of recognition of Kosovo independence,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in ...

  Bloomberg Ranil Wickremesinghe, a veteran lawmaker and former premier, has been named Sri Lanka’s next prime minister days after the last incumbent, the brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, resigned in the face of escalating anger with the deepening economic crisis. The president’s media unit confirmed the appointment in a text message. No other details were immediately available. The announcement ...