Lithuanian parliament vetoes nominee for prime ministerLITHUANIA: Lithuania's parliament has rejected the attempt of Zigmantas Balcytis to become prime minister, nudging the Baltic…Wed Jun 21 2006 - 01:00
Slovaks take a turn to the left and look set to vote out PMSlovakia: Reform-weary Slovaks look likely to oust eastern Europe's longest-serving prime minister when they go the polls today…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
Bosnia admits renditions violated human rights lawBosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnia-Herzegovina has admitted ignoring legal norms to hand six Algerian-born men to US forces, who then…Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
Balcytis promises stable LithuaniaLithuania: Lithuania's acting prime minister Zigmantas Balcytis pledged to stabilise his country's political scene and lead …Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
Unesco team to examine claims of Europe's first ancient pyramidBosnia: Researchers from Unesco are to examine a hill near Sarajevo where a businessman-cum-archaeologist claims to have found…Thu Jun 15 2006 - 01:00
Thousands for Warsaw gay parade despite oppositionPOLAND: Thousands of people are expected to join a gay parade through Warsaw today, amid growing international unease over Polish…Sat Jun 10 2006 - 01:00
Angry rejection from Poland, RomaniaEuropean reaction: Poland and Romania angrily rejected Council of Europe accusations yesterday that they hosted secret prisons…Thu Jun 08 2006 - 01:00
Murder darkens Serbia's independenceSERBIA: Serbia formally declared independence yesterday, after Montenegro scrapped its union with Belgrade, but the event was…Tue Jun 06 2006 - 01:00
Czech PM blames smears for poll defeatCZECH REPUBLIC: Czech prime minister Jiri Paroubek has grudgingly accepted election defeat, blaming it on a smear campaign that…Mon Jun 05 2006 - 01:00
Montenegro officially declares independenceMONTENEGRO: Montenegro has officially declared independence from Serbia, severing the final, frayed bond of the old Yugoslav…Mon Jun 05 2006 - 01:00
Czechs vote after bitter campaignCZECH REPUBLIC: Czechs went to the polls yesterday after a bitter general election campaign in which mudslinging obscured a …Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:00
Serb and Kosovo officials continue talksSERBIA: Officials from Kosovo and Belgrade met again yesterday to discuss Kosovo's bid for independence from Serbia.Thu Jun 01 2006 - 01:00
Lithuania cabinet resigns as coalition breaks upLITHUANIA: Lithuania's government collapsed yesterday amid allegations of corruption by cabinet ministers, raising the possibility…Thu Jun 01 2006 - 01:00
Czech PM denies obstructing inquiries into organised crimePRAGUE: Czech prime minister Jiri Paroubek has denied blocking prosecutors' attempts to fight organised crime, as opinion polls…Wed May 31 2006 - 01:00
EU quashes Montenegro's hopes of fast track membershipMONTENEGRO: Montenegro plans officially to declare independence from Serbia in the coming days, but the European Union has quashed…Tue May 30 2006 - 01:00
Prince seeks restoration of monarchy in SerbiaSERBIA: Serbia's crown prince has urged his countrymen to restore the monarchy once it formally splits from Montenegro, but…Fri May 26 2006 - 01:00
Serb president accepts vote for separationSERBIA: Serbia's president Boris Tadic accepted Montenegro's vote for independence yesterday, as the Adriatic republic began…Wed May 24 2006 - 01:00
Claims of Mafia links ignite Czech poll raceCZECH REPUBLIC: Allegations of government links to the Prague Mafia and a brawl between political enemies have ignited the Czech…Wed May 24 2006 - 01:00
Montenegro looks set to break union with SerbiaMONTENEGRO: Unofficial projections last night suggested Montenegro had voted in favour of independence in yesterday's referendum…Mon May 22 2006 - 01:00
Montenegro awaits vote on independenceMONTENEGRO: Montenegro votes tomorrow on whether to become the final former Yugoslav republic to break free from Belgrade, a…Sat May 20 2006 - 01:00
Prominent Polish priest spied for secret policePOLAND: A week before Pope Benedict arrives in Poland, the homeland of his predecessor John Paul, the country has been rocked…Fri May 19 2006 - 01:00
Slovenia likely to become the first accession state to join euro zoneSlovenia is likely to get the green light today to start using the euro next January, as the European Union warns its biggest…Tue May 16 2006 - 01:00
Kaczynski ally is Poland's new foreign ministerPOLAND: Former Solidarity activist Anna Fotyga was named as Poland's new foreign minister yesterday, amid student protests at…Wed May 10 2006 - 01:00
Bulgaria's Gadafy cartoons rankle ahead of nurses' trialBULGARIA: Bulgaria has rebuked a national newspaper for publishing cartoons lampooning Libya's president Muammar Gadafy just…Tue May 09 2006 - 01:00
Key minister quits over failure to make arrestSERBIA: Serbia's ruling coalition suffered its first serious blow in two years yesterday when a key minister quit over the government…Thu May 04 2006 - 01:00
'Sad day' for Bosnia as reform plan is rejectedBOSNIA: European Union and US officials condemned the Bosnian parliament's rejection of a constitutional reform package yesterday…Fri Apr 28 2006 - 01:00
10,000 Romanians evacuated from Danube villagesROMANIA: About 10,000 Romanians were being evacuated from villages along the Danube last night, as flood defences gave way after…Tue Apr 25 2006 - 01:00
Serbs finally closing net on MladicSerbia: The arrest of several alleged aides to Ratko Mladic has raised the hopes of many Serbs that the fugitive former general…Mon Apr 24 2006 - 01:00
New leadership puts Hungarian left in place for a second termHUNGARY: Prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany looks set to lead Hungary's Socialists to victory in tomorrow's general election, despite…Sat Apr 22 2006 - 01:00
Poland compromises on banking takeoverPoland has finally reached a compromise with Italian bank UniCredito on a controversial cross-border takeover that put Warsaw…Fri Apr 21 2006 - 01:00
Slovenia denies part in 1991 war crimesSLOVENIA: Slovenia denied yesterday that its troops had committed the first war crime of the 1990s Balkan wars by executing …Sat Apr 15 2006 - 01:00
Coalitions collapse in Lithuania, LatviaLITHUANIA: The collapse of government coalitions in Lithuania and Latvia has thrown the Baltic neighbours into political turmoil…Thu Apr 13 2006 - 01:00
Swelling Danube still a formidable foeVisegrad Letter: The look of incredulity on the mayor's face was probably answer enoughThu Apr 13 2006 - 01:00
French outcry as Slovenia relocates bearsSLOVENIA: Slovenia is about to catch five brown bears and transfer them to the Pyrenees - but they face a chilly reception from…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Czechs, Germans pull out as flood waters riseCZECH REPUBLIC / GERMANY : Emergency workers erected flood barriers in Prague yesterday and thousands of Czechs and Germans …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Polish president gives medal to Jaruzelski by mistakePOLAND: Lech Kaczynski, the right-wing Polish president and former Solidarity activist, has mistakenly awarded a medal for patriotism…Thu Mar 30 2006 - 01:00
Croatian TV re-employs woman sacked over divorceCROATIA: Television chiefs in deeply Catholic Croatia have reinstated a sign-language interpreter who was barred from translating…Sat Mar 25 2006 - 00:00
Warrant reissued for arrest of wife of MilosevicSerbia: A Serbian court reissued an arrest warrant yesterday for Mira Markovic, the widow of Slobodan Milosevic, after she failed…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
Bulgaria rebuked over corruptionBULGARIA : A leading business watchdog says corruption increased last year in Bulgaria, despite its claims to be beating the…Wed Mar 22 2006 - 00:00
Serb nationalists could pull plug on governmentSerbia: Serbia's powerful ultranationalist Radical Party has urged the old Socialist allies of Slobodan Milosevic to scrap their…Tue Mar 21 2006 - 00:00
Proposal to end Polish parliament rejectedPOLAND: Poland's main opposition party rejected a government plan yesterday to dissolve parliament and force a general election…Mon Mar 20 2006 - 00:00
Former guerrilla will lead KosovoKosovo: Kosovo's parliament approved former guerrilla commander Agim Ceku as the region's new prime minister yesterday, despite…Sat Mar 11 2006 - 00:00
Polish church apology for Soviet collaborationPOLAND: Poland's Catholic Church made its first formal apology yesterday for the collaboration of many priests with the feared…Fri Mar 10 2006 - 00:00
Poland confirms first bird flu casesPoland confirmed its first cases of deadly H5N1 bird flu yesterday, as a United Nations official accused wealthy western countries…Tue Mar 07 2006 - 00:00
Serbs furious at Ceku nominationSERBIA: Belgrade has urged the United Nations to prevent a former guerrilla commander becoming prime minister of Kosovo, as …Mon Mar 06 2006 - 00:00
Rights group condemns Putin recordRUSSIA: Mary Robinson joined other prominent political, business and religious leaders yesterday in condemning creeping authoritarianism…Thu Mar 02 2006 - 00:00
Ceku set to be Kosovo's new prime ministerKOSOVO: Former guerrilla commander Agim Ceku was nominated as Kosovo's new prime minister yesterday, after Bajram Kosumi resigned…Thu Mar 02 2006 - 00:00
Treasures stolen by Red Army given back to Hungarians at a priceBudapest Letter: Fifty years after Russian troops crushed Hungary's revolt against Soviet hegemony, Moscow has made a long-awaited…Wed Mar 01 2006 - 00:00
Radio wars as EU funds assault on Lukashenko's grip on mediaBELARUS: Lithuania has joined neighbouring Poland in broadcasting radio programmes into Belarus, as part of EU efforts to break…Tue Feb 28 2006 - 00:00
EU set to censure Serbia as Mladic still at largeSERBIA: Serbia is braced for EU condemnation today for failing to catch Ratko Mladic, but hopes Brussels will give it another…Mon Feb 27 2006 - 00:00
