Bulgaria suspends EU-funded projects amid graft suspicionBULGARIA: BULGARIA HAS suspended €88 million of EU-funded roadbuilding projects amid suspicions of graft and mismanagement, …Fri Jun 20 2008 - 01:00
Bosnia welcomes signing of pre-accession pact with EUBOSNIA: BOSNIAN AND European Union officials hailed the Balkan state's signing of a pre-accession pact yesterday as a major …Tue Jun 17 2008 - 01:00
Kosovo signs new constitution to more criticism from SerbiaKOSOVO: KOSOVO'S FIRST constitution as a sovereign state came into force yesterday, but Serbia refused to recognise it and fears…Mon Jun 16 2008 - 01:00
Russia and Serbia attack UN chief's plan for KosovoSERBIA: SERBIA ACCUSED UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon yesterday of overstepping his authority and jeopardising Balkan stability…Sat Jun 14 2008 - 01:00
Serb officials reject war crimes suspect's claim of innocenceSERBIA: SERB OFFICIALS have rejected a claim by war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin that they have the wrong man and are pressing…Fri Jun 13 2008 - 01:00
Police capture Bosnian war crimes suspectSERBIA: SERB POLICE arrested war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin yesterday and prepared to send him to the UN tribunal at The…Thu Jun 12 2008 - 01:00
Serbia coalition talks go down to the wireSERBIA: SERBIA'S NEW parliament is due to convene today, with the pro-EU Democrats and ultra-nationalist Radicals still vying…Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Rescuers search for 13 miners as 23 others found alive in Ukrainian mineUKRAINE: RESCUE WORKERS were searching for 13 Ukrainian miners last night after finding 23 of their colleagues alive in a colliery…Tue Jun 10 2008 - 01:00
'Dr Iron Fist' primed to punch his way to post of Kiev mayorUKRAINE: IN THE rough-and-tumble world of Ukrainian politics, contenders don't come much tougher than Vitali Klitschko, the …Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Saakashvili claims victory in disputed Georgian ballotGEORGIA: THE PARTY of Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili claimed yesterday to have won a crushing general election victory…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Curtain up on Havel's first play in 20 yearsCZECH REPUBLIC: PRAGUE IS preparing for one of Europe's theatrical events of the year as the first play in two decades from …Thu May 22 2008 - 01:00
Ex-king throws crown into ring for top EU jobSOFIA LETTER: IN A region that executed or expelled its previous generation of monarchs, and where prime ministers are still…Wed May 21 2008 - 01:00
Pressure on Serbia's Socialists mounts to form governmentSERBIA: A WEEK after finely balanced general elections, pressure is mounting on Serbia's Socialists to form a coalition government…Tue May 20 2008 - 01:00
Rift between Ukraine PM and president worsensUKRAINE: THE RIFT between Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, and its president, Viktor Yushchenko, deepened yesterday…Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
Serbia in coalition scramble after pro-EU party winsSERBIA: AFTER SECURING a surprise victory in Sunday's general election, Serbia's pro-EU parties now face the prospect of having…Tue May 13 2008 - 01:00
Serbia's pro-EU parties defy forecasts to win electionSERBIA: SERBIA'S pro-European Union alliance defied predictions to win yesterday's general election, according to early predictions…Mon May 12 2008 - 01:00
Serb nationalists narrowly ahead of pro-EU liberals on eve of key electionSERBIA: A DEEPLY divided Serbia will choose in a general election tomorrow between western-backed liberals who want to move …Sat May 10 2008 - 01:00
Belarus offers olive branch to US in diplomat spy rowBELARUS: BELARUS, DESCRIBED by the United States as the "last dictatorship in Europe", has offered a slender olive branch to…Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Kosovo Serbs vow to form own assembly after Sunday electionKosovo: LEADERS OF the Serb community in Kosovo have pledged to form their own political assembly after elections on Sunday…Thu May 08 2008 - 01:00
EU hopes offer of visa-free travel will sway SerbiansSERBIA: SEVENTEEN EUROPEAN states have offered visa-free travel to Serbians just days before they vote in a general election…Wed May 07 2008 - 01:00
Greece bans lamb in dispute over Macedonia nameGREECE: MACEDONIAN LAMB has become the latest victim of Greece's demand that its Balkan neighbour change its name, after Athens…Wed Apr 23 2008 - 01:00
Serbia's leaders clash over deals with Russia and attitude to EUSERBIA: MAJOR DEALS between Serbia and the European Union and Russia are becoming hostage to a battle between Serb president…Tue Apr 22 2008 - 01:00
Balkan criminal's starving bear released for new life in FranceBOSNIA: A BOSNIAN bear that almost starved to death after being kept as a pet by a local gangster was heading for a new life…Wed Apr 16 2008 - 01:00
Kosovars reject organs trade claimKOSOVO: SENIOR FIGURES in Kosovo and Albania have angrily rejected allegations by former chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla…Tue Apr 15 2008 - 01:00
Bulgarian cabinet to be reshuffled as key minister resignsBULGARIA: BULGARIA'S PRIME minister Sergei Stanishev is poised to reshuffle his cabinet after interior minister Rumen Petkov…Tue Apr 15 2008 - 01:00
Reform in Bosnia paves way to EU entryBOSNIA: INTERNATIONAL OFFICIALS hailed Bosnia's decision to implement long-awaited police reform as a step towards European …Sat Apr 12 2008 - 01:00
No-confidence vote in Bulgarian government takes place todayBULGARIA: THE PARLIAMENT of Bulgaria will hold a vote of no-confidence in the government today, amid a spate of lurid murders…Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
Slovakia ratifies Lisbon Treaty despite media law rowSLOVAKIA: SLOVAKIA'S PARLIAMENT ratified the EU's Lisbon Treaty last night, after a small ethnic-Hungarian party split with …Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
Bush flies in to Ukraine to extend last-minute support for its Nato bidUKRAINE: PRESIDENT GEORGE Bush flies to Ukraine today to offer last-minute US support for its bid to be invited to join Nato…Mon Mar 31 2008 - 01:00
Croatia hunting ex-general over grisly murdersCROATIA: CROATIA IS hunting a one-armed retired military general after the gruesome murder of four people, including his former…Sat Mar 29 2008 - 00:00
Slovak media attacks Bill it says will curtail freedomSLOVAKIA: SLOVAKIA'S MAIN newspapers devoted yesterday's front pages to a scathing attack on a proposed new media law they say…Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
Bucharest braces itself to host fraught Nato summitROMANIA: AS SECRET service agents swarm into Romania to prepare for the attendance of dozens of world leaders at next week's…Thu Mar 27 2008 - 00:00
Serbs say Kosovo is illegal 'Nato state'SERBIA: NINE YEARS after western powers started bombing Belgrade's forces out of Kosovo, Serb leaders yesterday denounced the…Tue Mar 25 2008 - 00:00
Serbia denies plan to partition KosovoSERBIA: PRESIDENT BORIS Tadic has denied that Serbia wants to partition Kosovo along ethnic lines and has denounced a senior…Sat Mar 22 2008 - 00:00
Russian security services arrest two brothers for espionage in oil industryRUSSIAN SECURITY services have arrested two Russian-American brothers for industrial espionage in the oil industry, in a move…Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
UN accuses Serb leaders and police over Kosovo riotsSERBIA: UNITED NATIONS officials have blamed Serb leaders and police for this week's deadly riots in Kosovo, as Belgrade railed…Thu Mar 20 2008 - 00:00
Kosovo Serbs clash with Nato and UN in MitrovicaKOSOVO: KOSOVO SERBS attacked United Nations police and Nato troops with guns, grenades and petrol bombs in the ethnically divided…Tue Mar 18 2008 - 00:00
Ex-policemen jailed for killing Ukrainian investigative journalistUKRAINE: THREE FORMER Ukrainian policemen have been jailed for the murder of investigative journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose…Mon Mar 17 2008 - 00:00
Death toll mounts after explosion at Albanian depotALBANIA: THE DEATH toll is rising from a huge explosion at an Albanian arms depot, which injured hundreds of people, damaged…Mon Mar 17 2008 - 00:00
Kosovo Serbs storm UN courthouseSERBIA: HUNDREDS OF Serbs stormed and occupied a United Nations courthouse in the flashpoint Kosovo town of Mitrovica yesterday…Sat Mar 15 2008 - 00:00
Macedonia coalition may fallMACEDONIA: MACEDONIA'S GOVERNMENT faces collapse amid a row over the rights of the country's Albanian minority and its failure…Sat Mar 15 2008 - 00:00
Serbs remember murdered leaderSERBIA: THE UNITED States and top EU officials urged Serbs to follow the political path of pro-western former prime minister…Thu Mar 13 2008 - 00:00
EU urges Serbs to back liberals as Kostunica dissolves governmentSERBIA: NATIONALIST SERB prime minister Vojislav Kostunica formally dissolved his government yesterday and asked president Boris…Tue Mar 11 2008 - 00:00
Serbia set for snap election as government fallsSERBIA: SERB PRESIDENT Boris Tadic is poised to call a snap general election after a government comprising his allies and those…Mon Mar 10 2008 - 00:00
Bittersweet homecoming for forgotten victims of warKOSOVO: Forced into exile after the Balkans war, Roma people are returning to what's left of their Kosovo homesSat Mar 08 2008 - 00:00
Serb government split over EU view of KosovoSERBIA: THE SERBIAN government lurched closer to collapse yesterday as its coalition partners clashed over whether to freeze…Thu Mar 06 2008 - 00:00
EU gas supply may be threatened againEU: UKRAINE WARNED yesterday that a deepening row over gas with Moscow could force it to cut supplies to the European Union, …Wed Mar 05 2008 - 00:00
West responds cautiously to Russian resultRUSSIA: EUROPE AND the United States gave a guarded welcome to Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev yesterday, amid complaints…Tue Mar 04 2008 - 00:00
Serb police officers in Kosovo refuse to work with Albanian colleaguesKOSOVO: SERB POLICE in Kosovo are refusing to work alongside their Albanian colleagues, in the latest stage in a Belgrade-led…Sat Mar 01 2008 - 00:00
Kosovo PM pledges to defend 'territorial integrity'KOSOVO : KOSOVO'S PRIME minister has denounced Belgrade's suggestion that it will control parts of his new country, effectively…Wed Feb 27 2008 - 00:00
