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
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
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
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
Mladic still in Serbia, says UNSERBIA: Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte dismissed persistent media reports yesterday that Gen Ratko Mladic had…Thu Feb 23 2006 - 00:00
PM displays prowess on dance floor ahead of April pollsHungarian Letter: You know an election race has really begun when a politician puts on his dancing shoes.Fri Feb 17 2006 - 00:00
Prague mayor goes undercoverPRAGUE: The mayor of Prague has disguised himself as an English-speaking rock star to test the trustworthiness of the city's…Wed Feb 15 2006 - 00:00
Romanian priest on the run after alleged swindleROMANIA: Romanian police are hunting an Orthodox priest who allegedly swindled €200,000 from his impoverished parishioners…Tue Feb 14 2006 - 00:00
Greece suspects bird flu in duck hunterGREECE: Greece was testing a hunter for avian flu yesterday, as the European Union reacted to its first cases of a disease that…Tue Feb 14 2006 - 00:00
Croatia moves to stop wealthy foreigners buying islandsCROATIA: Croatia has moved to prevent wealthy foreigners from buying up its idyllic Adriatic islands amid fears that EU accession…Sat Feb 11 2006 - 00:00
Serb army protected MladicSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Belgrade has admitted that its army officers harboured war crimes suspect Gen Ratko Mladic until the…Fri Feb 03 2006 - 00:00
Tens of thousands turn out for Rugova funeralSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians lined the streets of the regional capital, Pristina, yesterday…Fri Jan 27 2006 - 00:00
Polish leader to meet Pope todayPOLAND: Lech Kaczynski flew to Rome yesterday on his first foreign trip as Poland's president, but may have escaped political…Thu Jan 26 2006 - 00:00
Tributes to Rugova as Kosovo ponders futureKOSOVO: Thousands of Kosovo Albanians braved freezing weather yesterday to bid farewell to President Ibrahim Rugova, amid speculation…Tue Jan 24 2006 - 00:00
Kosovo mourns death of 'Gandhi of the Balkans'KOSOVO: Kosovo mourned yesterday for President Ibrahim Rugova, the leader of its fight for independence, who has died just ahead…Mon Jan 23 2006 - 00:00
New vote in Poland likely if coalition talks failPOLAND: Poland's prime minister has said that the country will go back to the ballot box if the new conservative government …Wed Jan 18 2006 - 00:00
Two-month-old Polish government may call fresh electionsPOLAND: Poland's new government may call fresh elections rather than form a coalition with populist parties that oppose key …Tue Jan 17 2006 - 00:00
Poland's ruling party to consider forging new alliances over budgetPOLAND: Poland's conservative minority government said yesterday it might push through its 2006 budget by forging alliances …Sat Jan 14 2006 - 00:00
Battle in Ukraine over sacking of governmentUKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko demanded yesterday that Ukraine's parliament reverse its decision to sack the government…Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:00
Sacking of Ukraine's government 'illogical and wrong'UKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko denounced Ukraine's parliament yesterday for sacking his government and destabilising the…Thu Jan 12 2006 - 00:00
Opposition concern at new Polish finance appointmentPoland: Poland's liberals have claimed that the government's appointment of one of its former top members as finance minister…Mon Jan 09 2006 - 00:00
Bulgarian hospital faces inquiry over alleged sale of organsBulgaria: Bulgarian officials are investigating allegations that a hospital in the capital, Sofia, was at the centre of a lucrative…Mon Jan 09 2006 - 00:00
Archaeologists and thieves vie for Thracian goldSofia Letter: The tale seems to change a little every time, but academics here love to tell it.Thu Dec 29 2005 - 00:00
Bulgaria to help set up HIV fund in LibyaBULGARIA: Bulgaria said yesterday it would help set up an international fund for the families of 426 Libyan children suffering…Sat Dec 24 2005 - 00:00
Serbs on trial for killing Bosnian MuslimsSERBIA: Five Serbs, whose alleged execution of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica was caught on a comrade's gruesome "trophy film…Wed Dec 21 2005 - 00:00
Hope for nurses condemned to death in LibyaLIBYA : Bulgarian officials are trying to temper growing optimism that five nurses condemned to death in Libya for infecting…Tue Dec 20 2005 - 00:00
Shepherd finds 70 foetuses in forestROMANIA: A shepherd has discovered more than 70 human foetuses and three adult human skulls in the forests of northeast Romania…Fri Dec 16 2005 - 00:00
John Paul's heartbeat sought for Polish MassPOLAND: A Polish priest is reportedly trying to obtain a recording of the heartbeat of the late Pope John Paul to play to parishioners…Wed Dec 14 2005 - 00:00
Croats rally in support of war crimes suspect GotovinaCroatia: Some 40,000 Croats rallied in the Adriatic port city of Split yesterday in support of Gen Ante Gotovina who faces war…Mon Dec 12 2005 - 00:00
Poland denies permitting secret CIA prisonsPOLAND: Poland's president Alexander Kwasniewski has insisted yesterday that Poland had never played host to secret CIA prisons…Thu Dec 08 2005 - 00:00
Croatian premier tries to mollify miffed ItaliansCROATIA: Croatia sought to mollify Italy yesterday after it denounced a proposal by the country's prime minister to return property…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
