Crisis situations and unrest in Europe since 2000

2020

• 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe

  2019

• 2019 Moscow protests
• 2019–20 Maltese protests
• 2019–20 Catalan protests
• Sardines movement

  2018

• 2018–2020 UK higher education strikes
• Yellow Vests movement

  2017

• 2017 Spanish constitutional crisis
• 2017 Romanian protests
• 2017 Serbian protests
• 2017–2018 Russian protests
• 2017 Belarusian protests

  2016

• Brexit – The United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union

  2015

• European migrant crisis
• November 2015 Paris Attacks

  2014

• 2014 Ukrainian revolution, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the subsequent ongoing War in Eastern Ukraine
• 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  2013

• Euromaidan, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine
• Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project
• 2013 Stockholm riots
• Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests and demonstrations against the Oresharski cabinet

  2012

• Greek labour unions continue strikes.
• Violent protests in Romania in January
• Ongoing protest activity in Russia
• Slovenian protests in Slovenia

  2011

• 2011 Northern Ireland riots
• 2011 UK public sector strikes, 2 million public sector workers strike over pensions
• 2011 England riots, thousands of people of the lower socio-economic group riot
• North Kosovo crisis, involving ethnic Serb demonstrators in North Kosovo against Republic of Kosovo Police and KFOR
• Thousands of protesters hold demonstrations in Belgrade, Serbia against the arrest of Ratko Mladić.
• 2011 Portuguese protests
• Nationwide protests across Spain
• Anti-cuts protest in London
• Refugees of the 2011 Libyan civil war
• Nationwide protests and strikes in Greece continue throughout 2011.
• Domodedovo International Airport bombing
• Major Russian protests begin in response to the 2011 Russian legislative election.
• 2011 Norway attacks

  2010

• Emergency state in Spain on December
• European sovereign debt crisis
• Suicide bombing in Stockholm on 11 December, the first ever suicide attack in the Nordic countries
• Student protests across the United Kingdom since November
• Student protest in Dublin on 3 November
• Pension reform strikes across France during September and October
• Pride March is held in Belgrade, Serbia and Serbian protestors clash with the riot police to try to disrupt the parade
• Alumina sludge spill in Ajka, Hungary, on 4 October
• French Romani repatriation in July
• Nationwide protests across Greece in May
• Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in April and May
• Metro suicide bombings in Moscow on 29 March

  2009

• Flu pandemic
• Protests at the G-20 summit in London in April
• Riot in Riga, Latvia, on 13 January
• Riots involving Bosnian football clubs NK Široki Brijeg and FK Sarajevo
• Anti-Israel riots in Oslo in January, continuing from December 2008
• Protests in Iceland in response to the country's financial crisis
• Unibrennt student protests in Austria
• Protest and riot in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 16 January

  2008

• Energy crisis in Bulgaria
• Riots in Greece in December
• Presidential election protests in Armenia
• Protests in Belgrade, Serbia following the declaration of Kosovo's independence
• Karadžić arrest sparks riots in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Rioting in Manchester before, during and after the 2008 UEFA Cup Final
• Armed conflict between Georgia on one side and Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other
• 2008 unrest in Kosovo

  2007

• Riots beginning 26 November in Val-d'Oise, France, following the deaths of two teenagers in a traffic collision with a police vehicle
• Anti-government protests in Georgia
• Global spread of H5N1
• Anti-Putin protests in St. Petersburg and Moscow beginning 24 November
• Football violence in Catania, Italy, in which one police officer was killed
• Bronze Night riots in Tallinn in April
• Attempted car bombings in London on 29 June
• Attempted suicide attack on Glasgow International Airport on 30 June, Scotland's first ever terrorist attack
• Eviction and demolition of the Ungdomshuset in Noerrebro of Copenhagen, March 2007

  2006

• Youth protests across France from February to April
• Riots in Dublin on 25 February
• Anti-government protests across Hungary from 17 September to 23 October
• Immigrant youth riots in Brussels following the unexplained death of a Moroccan local in police custody
• Riot in Copenhagen

  2005

• Riots derived from racial tensions in Birmingham, England, on 22 and 23 October
• Civil unrest by suburban youth across France
• Suicide bombings on 7 July and attempted bombings on 21 July in London

  2004

• Commuter train bombings in Madrid on 11 March
• Metro suicide bombing in Moscow on 6 February
• Violent unrest in Kosovo in March
• Orange Revolution in Ukraine beginning in November
• Beslan school massacre in North Ossetia

  2003

• Rose Revolution in Georgia in November
• Truck bomb attacks in Istanbul on 15 and 20 November

  2002

• Moscow theater hostage crisis from 23 to 26 October

  2001

• Gothenburg riots during European Council and EU-US summit from 14 to 16 June
• 2001 Oldham race riots
• 2001 Harehills riot
• 2001 Bradford riots
• Pride March in Belgrade, Serbia is brought to an end by Serbian protestors

  2000

• Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade, Serbia
• Russian submarine Kursk explosion on 12 August
• Baia Mare cyanide spill in Romania on 30 January
• Czech TV crisis beginning in late 2000 and continuing until early 2001