The transformation of what used to be the light-armed Kosovo Security Force (FSK) into a full-fledged military as well as its rearmament constitute a "great" threat to regional stability, Marko Duric, the director of the Serbian government's office for Kosovo and Metohija, told Sputnik

Expansion of NATO and discrimination against Russian representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) are all "links in the same chain," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday

President Donald Trump signed a national emergency declaration to secure funding to build a wall on the US southern border which immediately prompted legal challenges from state authorities and rights groups

President Donald Trump signed a national emergency declaration to secure funding to build a wall on the US southern border which immediately prompted legal challenges from state authorities and rights groups

US Senator Tim Kaine has asked the Department of Defense to reveal which projects will lose funding as a result of President Donald Trump's decision to declare a national emergency and redirect Pentagon funds toward building a border wall, a letter published by the lawmaker's office showed on Friday

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas made a case on Friday for ensuring lasting security by other means than raising defense spending, in a speech at the Munich Security Conference

US President Donald Trump will sign the fiscal year 2019federal budget later on Friday or the following day, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Muvlaney said in a briefing

US President Donald Trump expects to receive up to $8 billion additionally for the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico through declaring a state of emergency, media reported, citing sources from the White House

Early parliamentary elections is the best option for Spain, where the Socialist minority-government lacks support from Catalan nationalists for passing key government decisions, like the one concerning the draft budget, Santiago Fisas Ayxela, a member of Spain's conservative People's Party and the European Parliament, told Sputnik

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is under strong pressure as he faces right-wing anti-government rallies on the one side and a backlash from the Catalan pro-independence parties amid the start of a court hearing against regional politicians on the other, while his minority socialist government's budget draft fails to get the required support from forces on both political fronts and makes a snap parliamentary election very likely