Andrew Rettman

1 week ago | euobserver.com | Andrew Rettman

Nato has warned against a "security vacuum" in Bosnia, while playing host to a Serb leader sanctioned by both the US and UK. "We will not accept any kind of security vacuum in Bosnia and Herzegovina. And we will not allow hard-won peace to be jeopardised," said Nato deputy secretary general Radmila Šekerinska in Brussels on Tuesday (15 April). Get EU news that mattersBack our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberAlready a member?

1 week ago | euobserver.com | Andrew Rettman

The EU has tried to use religion to prompt US president Donald Trump to turn against president Vladimir Putin, ahead of Russia's traditional 9 May parade in Moscow. Several EU foreign ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Monday (14 April), underlined the fact Russia's latest attack on Ukraine came on the Christian feast day of Palm Sunday to prompt US support ... Get EU news that mattersBack our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberAlready a member?

1 week ago | euobserver.com | Andrew Rettman

ExclusiveThe identities of four 'shadow fleet' captains show the global scale of EU sanctions evasion, as Russian oil income continues to grow. A Turkish captain called Serdar Boz shipped 100,000 tonnes of Russian crude oil from the port of Ust-Luga on Russia's Baltic Sea coast to Kochi in India last November and December, according to information shared with EUobserve... Get EU news that mattersBack our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberAlready a member?

2 weeks ago | euobserver.com | Andrew Rettman

Bosnian appeals for EU soldiers to help arrest a top Serb politician have fallen on deaf ears due to fears of enflaming the country's political crisis. Member states' ambassadors meeting in the EU Council's political and security committee (PSC) in Brussels on Wednesday (9 April) flatly rejected the idea of EU-flagged soldiers going into Banja Luka in Bosnia t... Get EU news that mattersBack our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberAlready a member?

2 weeks ago | euobserver.com | Andrew Rettman

Bosnia's political crisis spilled into an EU press conference in Sarajevo on Tuesday (8 April), but there's little prospect of EU sanctions or arrest of secessionist Serb chiefs. The representative of Bosnia's Serb entity briefly traded jibes with the Bosniak and Croat leaders, as EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas gazed sideways from her podium, befor... Get EU news that mattersBack our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberAlready a member?