The coalition government of North Macedonia led by Zoran Zaev called for fresh elections after French opposition denied it a date for the initiation of membership talks with the EU

Algirdas Paleckis, founder of the socialist Frontas Party, was secretly arrested in October 2018 on charges of “intending to kidnap prosecutors” and of being a Russian spy. He has not been permitted to meet anyone except his wife, and that too, on one occasion

Leftist groups and peace activists noted that the military alliance served to spread US imperial interests at the risk of making the world a dangerous place to live in and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands

Konstantinos Papadakis of the Communist Party of Greece talks about the position of the party on Prespa agreement, its critique of the Syriza government, and its view on the European Union

The Communist Party of Greece pointed out that the Prespes Agreement was actually a plan to enable NATO expansionism