Migrants stuck in squalor at Hungary-Serbia borderUN condemns Hungary’s border control measures as Serbian minister voices concernSun Jul 10 2016 - 19:08
Estonia welcomes Nato troops as deterrent against RussiaSecurity services monitor Kremlin influence after it stoked separatism in UkraineSat Jul 09 2016 - 03:00
Baltic volunteers guard against threat of Russian stealth invasionSummit will ramp up Nato's response to the Kremlin’s moves in eastern EuropeFri Jul 08 2016 - 01:00
Hungary tightens migrant controls ahead of referendumHuman rights groups deplore police push-back powers and squalid border conditionsThu Jul 07 2016 - 01:00
Balkan people smugglers targeted in police dragnetHundreds of migrants found as people smugglers profit from tighter bordersSun Jul 03 2016 - 18:58
Brexit shakes EU hopefuls and strengthens Russia’s handPrize of EU membership has driven 25 years of change in ex-communist EuropeThu Jun 30 2016 - 01:02
Central Europe urges EU reform and rejects deeper tiesQuestions over whether top EU officials did enough to avert BrexitMon Jun 27 2016 - 16:43
Sweeping Ukraine’s war zone for lurking bombsHalo Trust teaches locals how to clear mines in their territory that war leaves behindFri Jun 24 2016 - 01:00
US pushes Ukraine and Russia for peace deal progressKiev and militants dispute timetable for elections and constitutional changeWed Jun 22 2016 - 16:13
Delicate balance of personal interest and peace in UkraineRinat Akhmetov has influence – and enemies – on both sides of Ukraine’s internal frontlineTue Jun 21 2016 - 01:00
French police stop fans’ bus en route to Lille after ‘gay parade’ jibeA bus carrying Russian fans in Cannes is reportedly stopped by French riot policeTue Jun 14 2016 - 10:30
Pro-Russian feeling refuses to fade among eastern UkrainiansKiev wrestles with deep Moscow ties and television propaganda at its separatist fringeThu Jun 09 2016 - 01:00
Major Nato war games seek to ease fear of Russian threatMoscow says manoeuvres in Poland are unjustified and reserves right to respondTue Jun 07 2016 - 16:11
Fear and frustration unite all on Ukraine’s dividing lineFrom vast queues to shellfire, travellers face grim ordeal when crossing the frontlineMon Jun 06 2016 - 01:00
Mob pelts customers with meat at vegan cafe in GeorgiaAttack in Tbilisi blamed on far-right group comes amid rising tensions and violenceWed Jun 01 2016 - 14:15
Ukraine’s peace prospects fizzling out as fighting flares upDivisions between pro-West Kiev and Russian-backed separatists erode ceasfireWed Jun 01 2016 - 01:00
Signs of life but little hope in Ukraine’s rebel eastLess fighting but rising poverty and uncertainty in Russian-backed region of DonetskMon May 30 2016 - 01:00
Putin softens tone as West’s date for renewal of sanctions loomsUkrainian pilot’s release and softer rhetoric boost those in EU who want to mend Russia tiesFri May 27 2016 - 10:51
Greece starts clearing migrants from border troublespotEvacuation of some 8,200 people from Idomeni begins in ‘calm atmosphere’Tue May 24 2016 - 15:33
Russia lambasts Nato as Montenegro signs member dealMoscow accuses Nato of harming Europe’s security and casts doubt on proposed talksFri May 20 2016 - 14:49
EU and US urge action as Macedonia vote delayed againProtests continue over corruption and presidential pardons for powerful figuresThu May 19 2016 - 18:25
Abuse, illness and extortion await migrants in BalkansAsylum seekers are being pushed into hands of smugglers, say human rights groupsMon May 16 2016 - 20:05
UN condemns Hungary's treatment of asylum seekersRights group says Hungary wants to send migrants back to struggling GreeceFri May 13 2016 - 16:41
Hungary’s border fence frays as migrants pursue EU goalThousands of asylum seekers still reaching Austria and Germany via HungaryFri May 13 2016 - 01:00
Petro Poroshenko hails €16m art find amid criticismUkraine finds paintings stolen from Verona museum on island near Moldovan borderThu May 12 2016 - 18:00
Macedonia’s protests seek truth behind ex-leader’s ‘facades’One year after Kumanovo gun battle, many suspect a state plot to distract from scandalsMon May 09 2016 - 01:00
Central European states deride new EU refugee planPoland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia also wary of visa-free EU travel for TurksThu May 05 2016 - 16:55
Migrant aid centre bulldozed as Serbian capital plans vast urban schemeDozens of migrants still transit Serbia daily and cross ‘closed’ Balkan bordersWed May 04 2016 - 01:00
Odessa marks two years since violence and blaze killed 48Anger lingers over clashes and fire that killed 48 people, mostly pro-Russian protestersMon May 02 2016 - 19:02
Macedonia’s ‘colour revolution’ over scandal-ridden eliteSupport for special prosecutor Katica Janeva as she attempts to untangle corruption casesSat Apr 30 2016 - 03:00
Ukraine, Belarus and Russia honour Chernobyl victims30 years after world’s biggest nuclear disaster, countries worst affected hold memorialsTue Apr 26 2016 - 18:47
Ukraine to mark 30 years since Chernobyl nuclear disasterVast area still contaminated and debate rages over long-term medical impactTue Apr 26 2016 - 08:16
Serbia's victorious PM eyes EU future as rivals cry foulAleksandar Vucic under pressure on economy as far-right returns to parliamentMon Apr 25 2016 - 18:29
Serbia’s PM Aleksandar Vucic poised for re-electionEarly projections put Progressive Party ahead, as ultra-nationalists eye a resurgenceSun Apr 24 2016 - 21:15
Serbian reporters targeted for inquiring into top-level graftJournalists who try to expose corruption among elite are now coming under attackSat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Boycott at ‘Croatia’s Auschwitz’ over fears of far-right revivalJews and Serbs see a whitewash of fascist Ustashe regime’s 1940s crimesThu Apr 21 2016 - 13:30
EU’s Macedonia crisis talks in doubt as protests growOpposition leader demands action before Friday’s negotiations in ViennaWed Apr 20 2016 - 17:04
Ultranationalism and Russia colour Serbia’s electionFar-right groups resurgent as prime minister Aleksandar Vucic seeks to cement controlWed Apr 20 2016 - 01:00
Volodymyr Groysman approved as PM of UkraineCritics fear Groysman, a close ally of Petro Poroshenko, will extend oligarchs’ influenceThu Apr 14 2016 - 16:30
Macedonian president’s mass pardon for politicians reignites crisisEU and US question country’s commitment to law after corruption scandal amnestyWed Apr 13 2016 - 16:26
Ukraine impasse raises spectre of snap electionRuling parties fail to form a new government as western backers await key reformsTue Apr 12 2016 - 18:27
Poroshenko’s protégé set to become Ukraine’s premierVolodymyr Groysman likely to replace Arseniy Yatsenyuk following his resignationMon Apr 11 2016 - 18:03
Greece lambasts Macedonian police over migrant clashesAid groups say dozens seek treatment after tear gas and rubber bullets allegedly usedSun Apr 10 2016 - 17:43
Deadly fire continues amid Russian-led talks on Nagorno-KarabakhMoscow vows to seek Azeri-Armenian peace, and to keep selling arms to both sidesFri Apr 08 2016 - 19:00
Czechs halt Iraqi refugee scheme after group leaves for GermanyCzechs angry after Iraqi Christians reject asylum and rent a bus to leave the countryThu Apr 07 2016 - 15:20
Nagorno-Karabakh truce holds as Russia boosts diplomatic roleTurkey accuses Moscow of backing Armenia as tension simmers around Caucasus regionWed Apr 06 2016 - 18:47
Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire as diplomats seek to quell violenceAzerbaijan and Armenian-backed separatists trade blame after dozens killed in heavy fightingTue Apr 05 2016 - 17:00
‘Full-scale war’ looms if Nagorno-Karabakh clashes worsenInternational envoys enter crisis talks over Azerbaijan and Armenia after 36 people dieMon Apr 04 2016 - 17:12
World powers call for Azeri-Armenian ceasefireAt least 30 killed in worst fighting since 1994 over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh regionMon Apr 04 2016 - 07:43
Turkey poised to take first migrants back from GreeceEU pins hopes on controversial ‘swap’ scheme despite warnings from rights groupsMon Apr 04 2016 - 01:00
