Stephen Sackur

Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, in an interview with the BBC, was asked on the idea on exchange of territory between Kosovo and Serbia. Haradinaj says he is "fully against" ceding territory to Serbia, reminding that exchange of territory was the main reason for bloody wars in Balkans.

Eastern Europe is closer to the conflict in Syria and this explains its different reaction to the migrant crisis compared to the West, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva told the BBC.

She also commented on domestic issues such as the fight against corruption and Bulgaria's further integration into the European Union.

Many readers took exception to my giving links in my last piece to David Brooks of the New York Times, who wrote ?I am not Charlie Hebdo,? and to Jordan Weismann of Slate magazine, who wrote ?Charlie Hebdo is heroic and racist.? Others were angered by my asking why Maurice Sinet (Siné) was fired from Charlie Hebdo.