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NIS - A six-member team of the Nis-based Faculty of Law has triumphed in a moot court competition before the European Court of Human Rights.

With this victory, Serbia's law students confirmed their domination over their colleagues from other law universities of South East Europe, as there were the best last year too.

Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has revoked sections of communications legislation allowing for the storage of telecommunications metadata and the access to them by Interior Ministry officials and other security personnel.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Greece to pay a total of 82,600 euros in compensation to 5 applicants who filed complaints with regard to the conditions of their detention in Korydallos, Larissa and Diavata prisons.

Bulgaria's operations with EU funds have improved substantially over the past few years, according to President Rosen Plevneliev.

Speaking Friday at a conference in Brussels organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies, Bulgaria's head of state said that Bulgaria was not on the list of EU countries with the highest rates of EU funds fraud of the European Court of Auditors.

The European Commission announced on Thursday its decision to take Greece to the EU?s Court of Justice over poor waste water treatment presenting a risk to public health.

According to an EU's Court of Justice ruling published on Friday, Greece is obliged to recover and return 150 million euros granted in aid to cereal producers and agricultural cooperatives, allocated by the government at the time in 2008.

BELGRADE - Member of the Serbian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Natasa Vuckovic was appointed on Tuesday as the vice-chair of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights.

BELGRADE - Member of the Serbian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Natasa Vuckovic was appointed on Tuesday as the vice president of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights.

By Mike Peacock

After a head-spinning bout of volatility, next week will be dominated by one question: Will the European Central Bank take the ultimate policy leap or pull its punches?

The ECB could launch a government bond-buying program with new money as soon as its Jan. 22 meeting, although Greek elections three days later are a complication.

By Alessandro Speciale

The European Central Bank?s public debate over buying government bonds is reaching a climax.