Croatia’s ruling conservatives and opposition centre-left Social were virtually tied in parliamentary elections today, leaving the make up of the future government unclear, exit polls and preliminary results showed.

Poland’s business-friendly and pro-EU Civic Platform ousted prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s conservatives in parliamentary elections, early results said today, in the strongest showing for any single party since the eastern European country overthrew Communism in 1989.

Frustrated Polish voters handed power to a reformed party of ex-communists in parliamentary elections and sent the once-mighty Solidarity bloc into political oblivion, exit polls showed.