Havel returns to his writing with controversial new playCZECH REPUBLIC: Almost two decades after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution transformed him from dissident writer into post-…Tue Nov 13 2007 - 00:00
Opposition in Georgia names its candidateGEORGIA: Georgia's opposition has named a wealthy winemaker to run against President Mikhail Saakashvili in January's snap election…Tue Nov 13 2007 - 00:00
Slovenia set to elect centre-left presidentSLOVENIA: Left-leaning diplomat Danilo Turk was poised to become Slovenia's new president last night, after election exit polls…Mon Nov 12 2007 - 00:00
Ukrainian firm Gdansk shipyard bid approvedPoland's competition regulator has approved a Ukrainian firm's bid to buy the Gdansk shipyards, birthplace of the pro-democracy…Sat Nov 10 2007 - 00:00
Georgian leader bows to protesters and calls electionsGEORGIA: Georgia's leader Mikhail Saakashvili bowed to the will of opposition parties and demonstrators yesterday by announcing…Fri Nov 09 2007 - 00:00
Serb politician goes on trial for war crimesUN: The leader of Serbia's most popular political party was accused yesterday of inciting ethnic hatred that led to the death…Thu Nov 08 2007 - 00:00
Romanian leaders urge Italy to prevent attacks on immigrantsItaly: Romania's leaders have urged Italy to prevent vigilante attacks on their compatriots, amid furious reaction to the alleged…Tue Nov 06 2007 - 00:00
Latvians demand resignation of governmentLatvia: Thousands of Latvians have rallied to demand the resignation of the government following the suspension of an anti-corruption…Mon Nov 05 2007 - 00:00
70,000 Georgians rally to call for early electionsGEORGIA: Some 70,000 Georgians protested against President Mikhail Saakashvili yesterday, thronging the heart of the capital…Sat Nov 03 2007 - 00:00
Bosnia crisis deepens as prime minister resignsBosnia: Amid growing tension across much of former Yugoslavia, Bosnia lurched deeper into political crisis yesterday when its…Fri Nov 02 2007 - 00:00
€3,700 compensation for Czech baby mix-upThe Czech Republic: Czech authorities have offered the equivalent of €3,700 in compensation to two couples whose babies were…Thu Nov 01 2007 - 00:00
Workers fear Gdansk shipyard at riskPolish workers at the Gdansk shipyard where the pro-democracy Solidarity movement was born fear bankruptcy could result from …Wed Oct 31 2007 - 00:00
Kostunica says West threatens Serb peopleSerbia: In angry rhetoric reminiscent of the final days of Yugoslavia, Bosnia's Muslim and Croat leaders have denounced Belgrade…Sat Oct 27 2007 - 01:00
Russia rejects December deadline for Kosovo dealRussia: Russia has rejected any deadline for talks on the status of Kosovo, amid Serb claims that the United States is blocking…Fri Oct 19 2007 - 01:00
Ukraine'Orange' leaders agree on coalitionUKRAINE: The leaders of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution clinched a deal last night to end months of squabbling and create a…Tue Oct 16 2007 - 01:00
Romanian minister fired over bribery allegationsROMANIA: Romania's farm minister was sacked yesterday after being accused of taking bribes and enduring severe criticism from…Fri Oct 12 2007 - 01:00
Defrocked rebel nuns arrested in police swoop on Polish conventPoland: Polish police stormed a convent yesterday and arrested more than 60 rebel nuns and a monk who had refused to leave the…Thu Oct 11 2007 - 01:00
Minister in fraud inquiryROMANIA: Romanian prosecutors have asked President Traian Basescu for permission to investigate his agriculture minister, just…Wed Oct 10 2007 - 01:00
Ukraine parties get coalition deadlineUKRAINE: Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has given Ukraine's feuding parties five days to form a coalition government, …Tue Oct 09 2007 - 01:00
Yushchenko invites foe to coalition talksUKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko has called on ally Yulia Tymoshenko and long-time enemy Viktor Yanukovich to join his party…Thu Oct 04 2007 - 01:00
Yanukovich refuses to concede defeat in Ukrainian electionUKRAINE: Prime minister Viktor Yanukovich demanded a chance to form a new Ukrainian government yesterday, despite election results…Tue Oct 02 2007 - 01:00
Orange Revolution leaders set to win elections in UkraineUKRAINE: Exit polls suggested last night that allies of the leaders of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yushchenko…Mon Oct 01 2007 - 01:00
Muslims and Serbs agree to merge Bosnian police forceBOSNIA HERZEGOVINA : Bosnia's Muslim and Serb leaders have finally agreed to merge its ethnically divided police force, just…Mon Oct 01 2007 - 01:00
Croat fury at mild penalties for massacreCroatia: Croatia reacted with fury yesterday to the verdicts handed down to three Serbs charged over the massacre of more than…Sat Sept 29 2007 - 01:00
Ukraine's president refuses neutral stance as poll loomsUKRAINE: Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has dismissed calls from election officials to stop campaigning and remain neutral…Tue Sept 25 2007 - 01:00
Season of reform under way in Hungary, but legacy of last autumn lingersLetter from Budapest : It is a year since a quiet autumn Sunday gave way to Hungary's worst violence in half a century, when…Mon Sept 17 2007 - 01:00
New Russian PM could compete for presidencyRussia: Viktor Zubkov said yesterday he would shake up the Russian cabinet and consider running for the country's presidency…Fri Sept 14 2007 - 01:00
Putin names little-known regulator as prime ministerRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin named a little-known financial regulator as Russia's new prime minister yesterday, confounding…Thu Sept 13 2007 - 01:00
Serbia rejects Kosovo remarks by USSERBIA: Serbia dismissed a US explanation of controversial comments about Kosovo yesterday, amid renewed talk about partitioning…Wed Sept 12 2007 - 01:00
Shootings overshadow Kosovo talksSERBIA: A police commander and an ethnic Albanian gunman were shot dead on Macedonia's border with Kosovo yesterday, cranking…Tue Sept 11 2007 - 01:00
Top Bulgarians spied for secret policeBULGARIA: More than 100 serving or former members of Bulgaria's democratic parliament, including the country's current president…Thu Sept 06 2007 - 01:00
Bankruptcy fears for Gdansk shipyardThe EU yesterday rejected Poland's plans for restructuring the Gdansk shipyard, leaving the spectre of bankruptcy hanging over…Wed Sept 05 2007 - 01:00
Deputies' vote defies Yushchenko decreeUKRAINE: Ukrainian deputies loyal to prime minister Viktor Yanukovich voted yesterday to strip politicians of immunity from …Wed Sept 05 2007 - 01:00
Brickbats fly in Poland ahead of power strugglePOLAND: Poland's politicians are trading barbs ahead of a likely battle for power this autumn, despite parliament postponing…Wed Aug 22 2007 - 01:00
Yushchenko wants rival party's election ban liftedUKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko has urged Ukrainian officials to reverse a controversial decision to bar the country's …Wed Aug 15 2007 - 01:00
Hidden villages hold centuries of Saxon traditionViscri Letter: After bumping for miles along a rough track through a shimmering Romanian heat haze, it is a relief to finally…Tue Aug 14 2007 - 01:00
Envoys meet Serb leaders to launch Kosovo talksSERBIA: Envoys from the European Union, Russia and the United States met Serbia's president and prime minister yesterday to …Sat Aug 11 2007 - 01:00
Romania to name clerics involved with SecuritateROMANIA: Romania is to expose leading Orthodox Church clerics who collaborated with the communist secret police, in an attempt…Thu Aug 09 2007 - 01:00
Serbs and Croats co-operate to save thoroughbred horsesThe Balkans: Belgrade and Zagreb have vowed to peacefully resolve the fate of a herd of prize Lipizzaner horses that have languished…Tue Aug 07 2007 - 01:00
Srebrenica prosecutor to investigate massacreBosnia: International investigators are to help a new Bosnian prosecutor's office based in Srebrenica investigate some 17,000…Mon Aug 06 2007 - 01:00
Serbian Gypsies seek asylum in RomaniaROMANIA: Just days after dozens of Romanian Gypsies were sent back from the Ballymun roundabout to what they claimed was a life…Fri Aug 03 2007 - 01:00
Belarus to pay $460m Russian gas billBelarus's president pledged yesterday to pay his country's huge gas bill to Russian energy giant Gazprom with help from Venezuelan…Fri Aug 03 2007 - 01:00
Charity digs deep to give Roma less reason to roamLetter from Tileagd: The Gypsies who camped on the Ballymun roundabout were not the first members of the Rostas family to try…Wed Aug 01 2007 - 01:00
Village in mourning after man with rifle kills nineSerbia: A village in eastern Serbia yesterday buried nine people killed by a local man who went on an hour-long killing spree…Mon Jul 30 2007 - 01:00
Heatwave fans flames across Italy and BalkansCROATIA: More than 1,000 tourists and residents of a Croatian island were evacuated yesterday when it was engulfed by a wildfire…Fri Jul 27 2007 - 01:00
Oligarch finds a place in the sun in Moscow-on-SeaLetter from Podgorica: It is easy to understand why one foreign property owner in Montenegro calls it Moscow-on-Sea.Wed Jul 25 2007 - 01:00
Bulgaria gives medics heroes' welcomeBULGARIA: Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting 460 Libyan children with HIV were finally freed…Wed Jul 25 2007 - 01:00
Bulgaria urges Libya to release medicsBULGARIA: Bulgaria said yesterday it hoped Libya would soon take the "political" decision to release five of its nurses and …Tue Jul 24 2007 - 01:00
EU urges swift release of Bulgarian medicsBULGARIA: The European Union and Bulgaria urged Libya yesterday to release swiftly five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor…Thu Jul 19 2007 - 01:00
Libya revokes death sentences on six medicsLIBYA: Libya last night commuted the death sentences given to six foreign medics to life imprisonment, after the families of…Wed Jul 18 2007 - 01:00
