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Supporters of Albania's opposition centre-right Democrats plan to gather on Thursday in front of the government office in Tirana amid allegations of a murder plot involving the speaker of parliament, Ilir Meta.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg accused Russia of its continued presence in Ukraine and called Moscow to withdraw all its forces and end its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.

This statement came after a meeting of NATO's senior military commanders at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium on Wednesday.

Bulgaria's government has nominated Georgi Kostov as new Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry following the resignation of Svetlozar Lazarov.

The cabinet has proposed to President Rosen Plevneliev to accept Lazarov's resignation and appoint Kostov to the post.

Kostov currently is serving as Deputy Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry.

STRASBOURG - The first chapters in Serbia's negotiation process with the European Union should be opened as soon as possible, Eduard Kukan MEP, who heads the European Parliament delegation for Serbia, said on Wednesday.

ZAGREB - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic and Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic conferred in Zagreb on Wednesday and asserted the political will for further development of the two countries' relations.

Passing the Tax Code and the Code of Tax Procedure designed by the Government means radical reform in Romania that can be conducted now, because the economic results of Romania so far allows that, Prime Minister Victor Ponta told his cabinet at a meeting on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta says his deputy Liviu Dragnea did not act alone and breached no law in the 2012 referendum to discharge the then President Traian Basescu.

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Hakan Fidan returned to work as the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) late March 10 after he withdrew his application to run for parliament for the ruling party amid an ongoing legal dispute over his return to his former post.

BELGRADE - The Military Security Agency (VBA) has provided the initial documents about the incident between the Gendarmerie and the military police in Belgrade in September last year and that is a step in the right direction, Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has posted on his Twitter account.

A leftist minister on Wednesday slammed Germany's ?obsessive? Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble for allegedly treating Greece as a ?protectorate? state.

The comments by Social Security Minister Dimitris Stratoulis were prompted by speculation that Berlin had put pressure on Athens to replace its Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.