Kyriacos Mitsotakis triumphs in New Democracy leadership election race
Kyriacos Mitsotakis was elected new leader of New Democracy, Greece’s main opposition party, on January 10 2016. Mitsotakis’s victory over
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Poland summons German ambassador over politicians’ ‘anti-Polish’ remarks
Poland’s foreign ministry has summoned the German ambassador over what it calls “anti-Polish” comments made recently by German politicians who
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Eastern Europe bristles after Cologne
Eastern European governments were against taking in Muslim refugees before the events in Cologne took place. Now, they feel vindicated
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Anti-government protest turns violent in Kosovo
Kosovo’s worst political crisis since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008 deepened Saturday, with thousands of opposition protesters taking to
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Greek bailout review set to drag on for months
Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem dealt a blow to the hopes of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of excluding the International
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Romanians, Moldovans arrested in ATM malware attack bust
The Romanian National Police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crimes and Terrorism (DIICOT), assisted by Europol and Eurojust as
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Russia suspected in first-ever cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid
In the last months of 2015, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea’s annexation and continuing strife in Ukraine’s
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Poland adopts controversial media-control law
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a controversial new law giving the country’s conservative government direct control of state media,
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Russian economy killers: Oil and sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin gets a bad report card, even a failing grade, for his handling of the economic crisis
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