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After 60 of the 62 penalties given to Serbian MPs last year were reportedly given to opposition MPs, some of them have accused the speaker of parliament of using the disciplinary measures as a tool to silence them in sessions.

Albania opposition parties have jointly called on the Socialist-led government of Edi Rama to put the longstanding argument over allowing the import of waste to a referendum.

A law on the matter is currently pending, after the President refused to sign it a year ago.

A Croatian state-funded institution for researching the 1990s war and a ruling party MP promoted a book written by former Bosnian Croat leader and war crimes defendant Jadranko Prlic in Mostar.

Injustice in Turkey will "certainly be removed one day," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who is currently in jail on espionage charges, has said in a message conveyed by a party MP on July 4.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on June 16 that if main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is going to stage a march, he should have staged it against coups.

Greece's Communist Party (KKE) has condemned an alleged attack by regional councilor Thanos Tzimeros against party MP Alexandra Balou.

Bucharest will ask Serbia in the coming days to extradite former MP Sebastian Ghita, who is wanted in Romania on several corruption charges.

Ghita, 38, was detained in Belgrade last Thursday night after identifying himself to police with fake Slovenian documents.

He was arrested after Serbian police thought it strange a "Slovenian" was speaking only in English.

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accused Greece's SYRIZA-led government of trying to manipulate Greek media while blurring the line between business and political interests.

"You are evolving into the most relentless, into the most authoritarian government this country has seen in the post-dictatorship years," the New Democracy leader said in Parliament Wednesday.

Socialist Party MP Taulant Balla on Tuesday criticised what he called "web portals used for electoral propaganda" and called for obligatory registration and the blocking of sites that fail to register during electoral campaigns.

A draft of the proposal, which Balla sent to BIRN, says that unregistered sites publishing 'electoral propaganda' will be closed down.

Seven days before the November 11 deadline to register to vote, only about 5,500 Macedonians living abroad have registered in Macedonian embassies to cast ballots in the December general election, the State Election Commission, DIK, told BIRN on Thursday.