Ongoing protests in Bulgaria received a fresh boost this week as Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski nominated a new director for State Agency for National Security DANS. Several hundred people occupying[…]
French President Francois Hollande has chosen a controversial Ukrainian feminist known for her topless protests as the new incarnation of Marianne, one of France’s national emblems, in a move that[…]
Jana Nagyová, former cabinet director-in-chief of outgoing Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, was questioned for six hours on Wednesday as investigation continues into an alleged large-scale corruption and abuse-of-office scandal[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lightning European visit this week will be remembered more for the unusual turn of the protests that accompanied it than for the economic and cultural talks[…]
Slovenian officials launched a damage-limitation campaign this week as concerns reappeared that the small country may be the next to succumb to the banking crisis after Cyprus. Hungary’s western neighbour[…]
Some 200 young Hungarians participated in the 25th March of the Living on Monday, a symbolic walk linking former concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and commemorating the millions[…]
Polish PM Donald Tusk took his country one step closer to euro accession on Tuesday when he announced his willingness to hold a referendum on the common currency. “I would[…]
Central and Eastern European banks face a difficult year, with those in Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia among the weakest, according to a sector report published by credit-rating agency Standard[…]
Amnesty International has joined a growing list of organisations raided by Russian officials in recent weeks amid what activists describe as a ruthless Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Prosecutors and tax[…]
