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The programme for summer student internships in the state administration will begin next week, announced the Council of Minister. There are over 1,200 open positions in 43 professional areas.

Serbian citizens living abroad eligible to vote in the April 2 presidential election have until March 11 to file their request to be included in the voter roll.

This request, to be submitted to Serbia's diplomatic and consular representative offices, specifies that they intend to cast their ballots in one of the polling stations abroad.

BIRN has learned that an indictment for misuse of office against Driton Gashi was withdrawn only days before he was appointed to head the intelligence agency by President Hashim Thaci and Prime Minister Isa Mustafa on Wednesday .

On February 3, the Pristina Basic Court dismissed an indictment filed in May 2016 against Gashi, then the General Secretary at the Interior Ministry.

The caretaker government of Bulgaria will hold a session on Monday, its press office says.

The development will come just a few days after the interim cabinet was sworn in.

Three items will be on the agenda. One will deal with the structure of the state administration, while another will be a draft resolution on the preparation of the early parliamentary elections on March 26.

Just a few days after Minister of State Christoforos Vernardakis heralded 10,000 new permanent hirings to the Greek civil service, sources at the Administrative Reform Ministry have ruled out the prospect of staff on short-term contracts being granted permanent status in line with Vernardakis's pledges.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with PM Aleksandar Vucic late Wednesday, World Bank (WB) officials expressed a readiness to back Serbian government efforts to strengthen the capabilities of the state administration in order to improve coordination among institutions and focus on achieving concrete results.

Bulgarian MPs have approved the a new minimum wage that will be introduced on January 01, 2017.

Starting from that day, its value will be BGN 460 (EUR 230), up from the current value of BGN 420.

Slovenia has improved access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to some extent also the responsiveness of the state administration.

But the main issues remain unabated, particularly red tape, the Commission wrote, calling for an acceleration in the "reduction of administrative burden" and "increasing the efficiency of the public administration".

British Prime Minister Theresa May has assured that the preparation of Brexit is going on schedule and that the legal process will begin by the end of March 2017.

"The preparation is ongoing and we are ready to start the procedure under Art.50 of the EU Treaty by the end of March 2017," stated Theresa May during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A new centre-right coalition government in Croatia under Andrej Plenkovic, president of the leading Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, was voted in by the country's parliament on Wednesday.

The coalition government of the HDZ, the centre-right Bridge of the Independent Lists, MOST, and all eight national minority MPs gathered the support of 91 of the 151 MPs in parliament.