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Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign...

Opposition parties and civil rights groups claim constitutional changes will harm the rule of law. Tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets yesterday to protest...

Ruling party wins early election but loses support. Macedonia's ruling centre-right party, the VMRO-DPMNE, emerged victorious from early elections on Sunday (5 June) but...

Stefano Sannino will replace Michael Leigh. The European Commission has appointed Stefano Sannino as director-general of the enlargement department. Sannino, an Italian who...

Parliament votes in favour of further revisons to controversial law. Members of the European Parliament today (10 March) said that changes to Hungary's media law intended to...

The EU is re-thinking its north Africa policy; it should not stop there. The European Union is crafting a “fresh approach” to north Africa in the wake of public...

Simply isolating Belarus is unlikely to change anything for the better. Much ink has been spilled by journalists and commentators describing the disappointing course of...

The EU will be sending out dangerous signals if it fails to take action following December's rigged election. The post-election crackdown in Belarus is a bleeding wound in...

The huge strides made towards improving governance. Albania has made huge strides to improving its governance, as many international international organisations can attest.

The first round of Ukraine's presidential elections showed how far the country has progressed. Four European ministers set out what their hopes for Ukraine are now....

International observers say “most” international commitments were met in the first round of presidential election. International observers have given a positive...

Kazakhstan's president sets out the ideas that will guide his country's chairmanship of the OSCE. On 1 January, Kazakhstan became the first former Soviet republic to take...

Clumsy Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Europe, and making the Kremlin look weak. In the 1990s, when enlarging NATO to take in the ex-communist countries still...

Vaira Vike-Freiberga as president of the European Council? It may be hard to imagine, but it is worth thinking about. Optimistic Latvians are thin on the ground these days....

The foreign ministers of Italy and Lithuania argue that the anomaly of Belarus's self-isolation may slowly be ending. Can Belarus, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin...

A year on from the Roma summit, what has changed? The attendees at the first-ever EU Roma Summit were powerful: five European commissioners, representatives from member...

For few other commissioners is Brussels as natural a political home as it is for Karel De Gucht. But he is also looking for a bigger job in the next Commission. Karel De...

Comparisons between countries' shameful wartime episodes are fraught with difficulty and hard to measure. How far does context determine blame and praise? That is a question...

Last election marred by accusations of fraud; MEPs to monitor fairness of the vote. Moldovans will vote next Wednesday (29 July) in a snap parliamentary election that will...

It says much that, in Russia, equating Stalin with Hitler might be deemed a criminal act. It is depressing that it even needed to be discussed. On Sunday in Vilnius, the...