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The Bucharest Court on Friday ruled a 30-day preventive arrest term for Mircea Basescu, President Basescu's brother.

Mircea Basescu's lawyer said that the warrant has been executed. He said also that Mircea Basescu made appeal to the court decision.

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) announced courts and prosecutor's offices have money for just to weeks and will have to stop paying their bills afterwards.

SJC representatives, quoted by Bulgarian daily Sega, have explained that no money has been given out to cover expenses since the initial budget was announced to be depleted.

Šarić "ready to take lie detector test" - lawyer

BELGRADE -- After it was announced that UKP chief Rodoljub Milović had passed his lie detector test, reports said that Darko Šarić also wants to take one.

Amid simmering political tensions in Kosovo, the presidency announced on Thursday that Jahjaga had addressed the court for advice to “clarify the constitutional action of the president” in nominating a new prime minister, who will then form the next government.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone has described the verdict given by the Constitutional Court on the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case, which paves the way for the retrial of a score of military officers, as “fascinating” and “remarkable,” as it was a unanimous ruling.

Turkey’s top court has delivered a landmark ruling, deciding that the rights of a majority of the convicted suspects in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case have been violated, thus paving the way for a retrial.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta sent a letter to the Constitutional Court of Romania president Augustin Zegrean asking him to instruct "that the adequate measures" are taken so that the Court ruling on the insolvency law "should produce the legal effects".

Renewable energy producers have threatened to sue Bulgaria's energy watchdog due to its intentions to impose a dramatic reduction in preferential tariffs.

The decrease in the preferential tariff for wind farms is by 20-22% and for photovoltaic plants by over 50%, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

The court in Zagreb on Friday confirmed that Sanader would go to jail but reduced the sentence from ten years to eight and a half.

Sanader, who was the country's premier from 2003 to 2009, was convicted of taking bribes from Hungarian oil group MOL in exchange for allowing it to take a dominant position in Croatian oil firm INA.

A heavy penal court in Turkish capital Ankara has released non-arrest assurances for dozens of senior figures involved with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The court order applies to key PKK leaders currently living abroad, including Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal, on the condition of their return to Turkey within three months.