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Parliament speaker Aleksa Becic (left) at a session in Podgorica. Photo: Parliament of Montenegro

Meanwhile, the other two blocs in government announced protests if a new government is formed with the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS.

2017 will probably be remembered as the "year of change" in the history of European politics. This does not apply only to the European Union and its transformation within but also pertains to the future of Europe's relations with the rest of the world. Turkey, for that matter, is part of the rest who tries to remain in the west.

Despite the decision of a number of Serbian NGOs and civic movements to launch a joint front in politics, Dodje Vukovic, from the Belgrade-based center for Free Elections and Democracy, CESID, said he doubted they can achieve real change in Serbia.

Despite an order from the local authorities to unblock traffic in the centre of Podgorica, protesters on Wednesday said they would use "their bodies" to defend their right to demonstrate against Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's government.

The main opposition alliance, the Democratic Front, urged the government on Monday to delete more than 70,000 voters from the central electoral roll because it said they could not prove that they have resided in the country continuously for the past two years.

The Iraqi Turkmen Front has expressed concern over a U.S. House committee discussion on a bill which aims to arm Kurds and Sunni tribes in Iraq.

The U.S. House committee discussed on April 29 proposed legislation that would grant President Barack Obama's request for $715 million for security assistance to Iraqi forces fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Deputy Ministers Rumyana Bachvarova, Meglena Kuneva, Ivaylo Kalfin, and Tomislav Donchev are to present Friday the achievements of the government in its first 100 days in office.

The four deputy ministers are to give a press conference in the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers, according to the BGNES news agency.

Slavi Binev, MP of the Patriotic Front, resigned from his position as head of the Parliamentary Committee For Culture And Media.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the PF group in Parliament and was announced by the co-chairperson of the group Valeri Simeonov in front of journalists.

Orhan Ismailov, an ethnic Turk who has been appointed Deputy Minister of Defense, could disclose secret information to the Turkish intelligence, a nationalist leader has said.

Orhan Ismailov owes his "heady career" to the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Valeri Simeonov, who co-chairs the nationalist coalition Patriotic Front, told the Bulgarian National Television.

Conservative GERB is refusing to adhere to some of the commitments on which it agreed with the Patriotic Front, PF's co-leader explained on Wednesday.