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
In the zone: Chernobyl still dying after 30 yearsAs new shield for wrecked nuclear reactor in Ukraine nears completion, some people who lived or worked in contaminated zone find themselves unable to stay awaySat Apr 02 2016 - 05:00
