Tag: protests

Romanian riot police fired tear gas at protestors who threw bricks and bottles back at them yesterday (19 January), as demonstrations against government austerity measures entered their second week.

Government efforts to enact a controversial healthcare bill sparked protests, some violent, that mushroomed into demonstrations of broader discontent over the economy and national leadership.

Hundreds of Chernobyl cleanup veterans outraged at planned benefit cuts have tried to break into the Ukrainian parliament, prompting President Viktor Yanukovych to claim that armed attacks were being planned on the authorities.

A chorus of countries led by the EU and the US has called for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying they will impose further sanctions on a regime which is "torturing and slaughtering" its own people in what the UN said could be crimes against humanity.

Tanja Milevska argues Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, despite a recent electoral victory, is in an insecure position due to the EU's negative assessment of the country's candidacy prospects and mass protests following the police's murder of a youth.

Georgian riot police broke up five days of demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili today (26 May) and two people were killed by cars speeding away from the clashes.

There is no end in sight to Albania's political crisis and January's fatal demonstrations have shaken what little faith remained among EU leaders and institutions, write Bledar Feta and Dr. Ioannis Armakolas from the 'Athens Working Group: Transforming the Balkans' at the Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM).

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and her US counterpart Hillary Clinton have strongly condemned yesterday (23 December) the violent repression by the Belarus authorities following presidential elections in December, which observers say were rigged.