Sweden’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Bosnia would not be able to apply for European Union membership as long as it was supervised by an international peace envoy. Carl Bildt said the country was not ready to apply during his country’s EU presidency in the second half of this …

Moldovan authorities and opposition leaders agreed on Tuesday to a recount of votes cast in Sunday’s parliamentary election, Russian news agencies reported, after demonstrators seized the president’s offices. Some 10,000 demonstrators massed for a second day in the capital of Europe’s poorest country to denounce the victory by the Communist …

Russia threatened to fine Ukraine on Tuesday for failing to buy enough gas in the first quarter, increasing pressure on its neighbour at a time when the World Bank said Kiev’s economy was contracting fast. Alexei Miller, chief executive of Russia’s state-run gas giant Gazprom, told Reuters the corporation was …