Still having occasionally comunication failures and plenty of Pool not providing work fast enough. The very annoying thing is that is never bad enough for cgminer to consider the backup pool but bad enough for hashrate to drop (failover strategies).

Load balance strategy seems to always favour the backup pool even when CoinLab is doing OK, so no.
Balance strategy works, but with a hashrate often significantly reduced (70-50%), so no again.
The site is also sometimes unreachable.
NO, I do not have any net/software/hardware problems.

Any ETA on EU servers?