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A quiet, tranquil August gives our columnist a chance to assess the situation in Europe's eastern states Nothing much happens in August, supposedly, which is why European...

The Arab world is being patronised by the West in the same way that central and eastern Europe once was. A long period of economic, political and cultural failure is...

In memory of Roman Kupchinsky, a scourge of communists and post-communist kleptocrats alike. In their freedom they had no homeland. And in their homeland they had no...

José Manuel Barroso faces intense talks as he starts work on assigning jobs in the next Commission. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is to...

If another crisis hits eastern Europe in the summer, the US is likely to respond faster than the European Union. When the people who run the western world go on holiday, bad...

As the wind of change turns chillier, the favourite comfort blanket for defenders of Western liberalism is the EU Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev are...

The ex-communist states of eastern Europe have been economic success stories but political failures in recent years. Since eight former captive nations joined the European...

Estonia has pushed the Russian-German gas pipeline out of its territorial waters into Finland's – which is fine and dandy by the pragmatic Finns. It was the route that was...

One week after the April riots in Tallinn, while Estonia's embassy in Moscow was surrounded by an irate mob of pro-Kremlin youth groups and Estonian websites, both government...

Torn between the legitimate grievances of some of its smaller, further-flung member states and the imperative of “constant engagement” with Moscow, Angela Merkel bowed to...

It has been a depressing couple of weeks for those who worry about Russian imperialism and sympathise with the underdog. But not a hopeless one. It started off badly:...

Ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schröder came to Helsinki a couple of weeks ago and took the opportunity to praise the celebrated Russian-German gas pipeline and repeat his...

UKRAINE faced a growing likelihood of a fresh presidential election last night (1 December) after the country's parliament voted to oust the government led by Viktor...

ESTONIAN MEPS have been left unpaid since they were elected in June because of a hitch in national legislation. A new law has to be passed in the Estonian parliament...

EU leaders issue are endlessly reaffirming their commitment to enlarging the Union, but they don't seem to have convinced everybody. In a recent speech in Berlin, Estonia's...

UNION agriculture ministers approved a new trade accord with Estonia this week. The country's Foreign Minister Toomas Hendrik Ilves said afterwards that the new agreement...