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Hungary's capital Budapest was rocked by protests once again on January 21, except unlike those in early January against changes to the country's constitution, these were in support... 2012-01-26

Agencies within the Latvian government are deeming the coalition's decision to support EU sanctions against Belarus as short-sighted. The Employment Confederation of Latvia in particular... 2012-01-26

Sweden-based telecoms group Tele2 's Estonian subsidiary Tele2 Estonia will buy Estonian telecoms provider Televorgu from state-owned Eesti Energia in a deal worth SEK225mn... 2012-01-24

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government has tried to secure seats for non-euro European Union countries at future summits of the eurozone, without voting rights. The underlying reasoning... 2012-01-24

Thousands of Poles protested against the government on December 13 in the capital, Warsaw, after the administration agreed to a new EU pact calling for tighter fiscal cooperation. The... 2011-12-29

According to reports on December 27 by officials from the state Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund, two employees who had been fasting in response to political manipulation... 2011-12-29

The Czech Communist Union of Youth, Komsomol, have been condemned by parliamentary parties for their campaign against former President Vaclav Havel, which took place on the first of... 2011-12-23

The days of the austerity-focused centre-right coalition government under Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius are numbered, and a reversal on fiscal policy after the October 2012 parliamentary... 2011-12-23

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has stated that 'Russian is a language of occupants' in an interview with Swiss newspaper Der Bund. The statement was in response to a question... 2011-12-23

Latvia's Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has said that the government must make some critical decisions in the coming months which we believe could increase tensions with neighbouring... 2011-12-22