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Alexander S. Neu, one of the German parliamentarians who recently visited German troops based at Turkey's İncirlik air base after Ankara granted permission, has said he was disappointed to not be able to meet Turkish government officials during the trip. 

Albania's political scene is expected to be tense for months to come as around 30,000 officials complete questionnaires concerning any past criminal convictions and the date is verified.

The situation is already heated after the Mayor of Kavaja, Elvis Rroshi, from the ruling Socialist Party, left office on Tuesday as a result of new facts emerging about his past.

The admission by Greek Alternate Minister for the Protection of Citizens Nikos Toskas, Saturday that a Turkish official will be responsible for deciding the readmission of refugees and immigrants entering Greece into Turkey has caused a political uproar.

Albania's parliament has voted to set up a National Council for Civil Society in an attempt to create an organized structure that includes the voice of civil society in the policy-making process.

With less than one year before crucial local and parliamentary elections, members of the opposition centre-right Popular Movement, MP, overwhelmingly voted for Basescu as the party's new leader on Saturday.

Basescu, who was president for 10 years from December 2004 until December 2014, said he wanted to continue the work he started when he was in office.

Australian Labor Party MP Alannah MacTiernan reportedly wrote an e-mail to an unnamed Greek-Australian Labor party member who stated concern over her position on the renaming of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). In her response to the citizen, MacTiernan wrote that it was not clear if “the original Macedonians can be described as ‘Greek'”.

The way that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s remarks during a TV interview on Sunday evening were reported on our newspaper?s website drew a harsh reaction from the ruling party, becoming a pretext for a stone-throwing, club-swinging attack targeting our office building in Istanbul.

The most recent convert to a possible return to the drachma is none other than the leader of the small rightist-populist Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party, Panos Kammenos.

In statements to a local radio station on Monday, the former defence minister, former ND minister and former anti-bailout polemicist stated:

Shades of AIDS disinformation in Greece this week, from a ruling SYRIZA party MP and a physician specializing in infectious diseases no less, as Yiannis Mihelogiannakis told a television news program that the HIV virus is transmitted through … saliva.

At its 27th press conference on the issue of illegal surveillance in Macedonia, the opposition Social Democrats on Tuesday presented what they claimed were secret police spreadsheets containing data about more than 20,000 eavesdropped persons.