Kosovo celebrates first year of sovereigntyKOSOVO AND Serbia traded barbs yesterday as the mostly ethnic-Albanian state celebrated its first year of independence from Belgrade…Wed Feb 18 2009 - 00:00
Czech scheme to repatriate unemployed foreignersTHE CZECH Republic is offering a plane ticket home and €500 to foreign workers who lose their jobs during the economic downturn…Wed Feb 11 2009 - 00:00
Bulgaria arrests Mafia suspect and places curfew on teenagers in crime crackdownBULGARIA HAS responded to criticism from the European Union over its failure to crush crime and corruption by arresting an alleged…Mon Feb 09 2009 - 00:00
Latvia minister quits in crisisLATVIA’S GOVERNMENT faced a no-confidence vote in parliament last night after the agriculture minister resigned amid public anger…Thu Feb 05 2009 - 00:00
Kremlin shelves missile plan in gesture to ObamaRUSSIAN MILITARY officials say they have shelved plans to deploy missiles close to the European Union, in what analysts called…Thu Jan 29 2009 - 00:00
Russia and Ukraine end dispute over gas supplyRUSSIAN AND Ukraine declared an end to their energy war last night, but an impatient European Union demanded to know exactly …Tue Jan 20 2009 - 00:00
Russia and Ukraine to sign deal today on gas supplyRUSSIA AND Ukraine are expected to sign a deal today to end a gas dispute that has starved Balkan homes and industry of energy…Mon Jan 19 2009 - 00:00
Russian and Ukrainian leaders to meet on gasTHE PRIME ministers of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss their gas dispute, as top international officials…Fri Jan 16 2009 - 00:00
Russia, Ukraine trade blame as gas deal falters at final hurdleRussia refused to restart gas exports to the European Union via Ukraine last night, after accusing Kiev of making unacceptable…Mon Jan 12 2009 - 00:00
Calls for calm after Kosovo violencePOLITICAL LEADERS and international forces in Kosovo have called for calm after seven firemen were injured in the second spate…Mon Jan 05 2009 - 00:00
Belarus devalues rouble in loan deal with IMFBELARUS DEVALUED its rouble currency by about one-fifth yesterday, in the wake of a deal to secure a $2.5 billion (€1Sat Jan 03 2009 - 00:00
50% chance of Ukraine gas being cut off, says RussiaRUSSIAN ENERGY giant Gazprom says there is a "50-50" chance that it will stop pumping gas to Ukraine on January 1st, due to a…Mon Dec 29 2008 - 00:00
Latvia secures €7.5bn rescue dealLATVIA HAS become the latest eastern European nation to secure a rescue package from international lenders, after the Baltic …Tue Dec 23 2008 - 00:00
Romanian parliament approves new coalitionROMANIA'S PARLIAMENT has approved a new prime minister and coalition government, in which former enemies from right and left …Tue Dec 23 2008 - 00:00
Croatia undeterred by Slovenia on EU accessionCROATIA HAS vowed to complete European Union accession talks next year, despite neighbouring Slovenia's decision to block negotiations…Sat Dec 20 2008 - 00:00
Bulgarians protest at state corruption as MPs take bonusesABOUT 2,000 Bulgarians protested in their capital, Sofia, yesterday, amid growing anger at crime and corruption and the government…Sat Dec 20 2008 - 00:00
Russia and Ukraine assure EU gas dispute will not disrupt supplyRUSSIA AND Ukraine have assured the European Union that their deepening gas dispute will not lead to a cut in supplies to the…Sat Dec 20 2008 - 00:00
Hopes of forming Romanian government dim as PM-designate revokes candidacyROMANIA’S PRIME minister-designate unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy yesterday and was replaced by Emil Boc, leader of the …Tue Dec 16 2008 - 00:00
Romania names new prime minister as coalition deal loomsFORMER WORLD Bank official Theodor Stolojan was named yesterday as the new prime minister of Romania, as it seeks a strong new…Thu Dec 11 2008 - 00:00
Ukraine's fractious coalition set to be reinstatedUKRAINE'S FRACTIOUS pro-western government appeared to have been reinstated last night, after months of bitter wrangling and …Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
Old rivals considering Romanian coalition make strange bedfellowsROMANIA'S EX-COMMUNISTS and centrist allies of president Traian Basescu discussed forming a new coalition government yesterday…Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
Czech Eurosceptics to form new partyALLIES OF Eurosceptic Czech president Vaclav Klaus are preparing to launch a new party centred on opposition to the EU's Lisbon…Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
Czech PM's battle for party leadership clouds treaty debateTHE CZECH Republic’s prime minister faces a party leadership challenge this weekend, adding to uncertainty in the country as …Sat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00
Putin declines to rule out return to presidencyRUSSIAN PRIME minister Vladimir Putin has refused to quash speculation that he could return to the Russian presidency, in his…Fri Dec 05 2008 - 00:00
Romania's left and centre parties both claim right to form governmentROMANIA'S EX-COMMUNIST Social Democrats (PSD) and centrist Liberal Democrats (PDL) are both claiming the right to form a new …Tue Dec 02 2008 - 00:00
Ex-communists in Romania poised to return to powerROMANIA'S EX-COMMUNIST Social Democrats (PSD) comfortably won yesterday's general election, exit polls suggested, as the right…Mon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00
Czech court clears way for parliament to ratify Lisbon TreatyTHE CZECH Republic's constitutional court has cleared the way for the country's parliament to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, a process…Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
Czech court to rule on legality of Lisbon pactTHE CZECH Republic's constitutional court is expected to rule today on the legality of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, after…Wed Nov 26 2008 - 00:00
Attacks on Roma suggest slump is fomenting racismPOLITICIANS AND human rights groups across eastern Europe have been pointing to nationalist riots in the Czech Republic and deadly…Tue Nov 25 2008 - 00:00
Ukraine-Russia gas dispute could threaten suppliesUKRAINIAN OFFICIALS are heading to Moscow for urgent talks to defuse a Russian threat to cut gas supplies over a debt dispute…Tue Nov 25 2008 - 00:00
Ukraine president gives PM five days to resolve Russian gas disputeUKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Viktor Yushchenko has given prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko five days to resolve their country’s gas dispute…Sat Nov 22 2008 - 00:00
Pressure to ban Czech far-right group after riotingTHE CZECH government is under pressure to ban extremist groups after more than 500 supporters of the far-right Workers’ Party…Wed Nov 19 2008 - 00:00
Russian vote seen as paving the way for Putin's returnRUSSIA'S LOWER house of parliament gave preliminary approval yesterday to plans to extend the president's term in office, a move…Sat Nov 15 2008 - 00:00
Ukraine not yet ready for membership, says NatoNATO TOLD Ukraine yesterday that it was not ready for membership of the military alliance, as the country's politics descended…Fri Nov 14 2008 - 00:00
President criticised at home over meetingCZECH REACTION: EUROSCEPTIC CZECH president Vaclav Klaus has been strongly criticised in his home country for meeting Lisbon…Thu Nov 13 2008 - 00:00
Kosovo rejects deal on deployment of EU missionA 2,000-STRONG EU mission to oversee policing and justice in Kosovo could suffer further delays after leaders of the newly independent…Wed Nov 12 2008 - 00:00
20 Russians on submarine killed by gas, says initial reportAT LEAST 20 Russian sailors and civilians died and 21 others were injured when a nuclear submarine's fire extinguishers accidentally…Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:00
Russian missile plans condemnedWESTERN POWERS have condemned Russian plans to deploy missiles close to Baltic members of the EU and Nato, in what analysts see…Fri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00
Five charged over murder of Croatian media figuresCROATIA HAS charged five people over the murder of two leading media figures and jailed 22 people in a major drug smuggling case…Wed Nov 05 2008 - 00:00
Lisbon unlikely to be settled before Czech presidency of unionTHE CZECH Republic says it is unlikely to have decided whether to accept the European Union's embattled Lisbon Treaty when it…Tue Nov 04 2008 - 00:00
Under-fire Putin ally quits as head of violent regionOPPOSITION ACTIVISTS in the violence-plagued Russian region of Ingushetia are celebrating the resignation of local leader Murat…Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
A furtive friend to the powerfulThe elusive Russian oligarch at the centre of a political row involving Peter Mandelson and Tory George Osborne will not welcome…Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
President calls for liberalisation in BelarusASSAILED BY the global financial crisis and urged by western nations to open up his tightly controlled country, President Alexander…Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Bills to permit IMF-led reforms blocked in UkraineTHE LONG-RUNNING feud between Ukraine president Viktor Yushchenko and prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko paralysed the passage of…Wed Oct 29 2008 - 00:00
IMF fails to quell jitters in eastern EuropeMAJOR LOAN packages from the International Monetary Fund to prop up Ukraine and Hungary failed to quell financial jitters yesterday…Tue Oct 28 2008 - 00:00
Centre-right parties begin coalition talks in LithuaniaFOUR CENTRE-RIGHT parties have started talks to form Lithuania’s new government, as fears over recession and a resurgent Russia…Tue Oct 28 2008 - 00:00
Croatia promises Mafia crackdown after new killingsCROATIA'S LEADERS vowed yesterday to stop a wave of increasingly brazen mafia attacks before they damage the country's bid to…Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00
Czechs jailed over child abuse linked to cultA CZECH court has jailed five people involved in abusing children in rituals linked to a bizarre religious cult.Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00
Serb extremist forms pro-EU partySERBIA: FORMER SERB ultra-nationalist leader Tomislav Nikolic, one of the fiercest critics of western support for Kosovo's independence…Thu Oct 23 2008 - 01:00
Ukrainian snap election postponedPRESIDENT VIKTOR Yushchenko has postponed Ukraine's snap general election for one week to help political leaders deal with the…Tue Oct 21 2008 - 01:00
