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All the new ministers will find a rather voluminous folder with the priorities of their portfolios in front of their seats during the first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The so-called "blue folder" will serve as the guide for how ministers will move and on which axes in the coming period.

This is actually an introduction to the formation of the new Government of Serbia.
The President of the Assembly, Vladimir Orli, convened the first session of the autumn regular session of the Parliament for tomorrow, and as the only item on the agenda, amendments to the Law on Ministries were proposed.

Former education minister Costas Gavroglou hailed a ruling by the Council of State which approved a change in the mission statement of the ministry as an "important day" for promoting the distinct roles of State and Church.

The first wave of layoffs in the administration will cover 1600 people, making less than 2% of the total number of civil servants. Each ministry will be affected by the first cuts. That explains Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev to bTV.

A second national protest of prison staff and judicial guards will take place tomorrow in Sofia. Protesters will submit their claims to several institutions - the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance and the Council of Ministers. One group will go from the Court of Justice. The protest march on Saturday will be led by bagpipes in national costumes.

The Migration Directorate of the Ministry of Interior received a donation of two minibuses for the transport of migrants from the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, reports novinite.bg. 

The Education Ministry's plan to merge technical colleges (TEI) with universities looks like an exercise in clientelist politics and vote-mongering - and it is.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Albania's new government Sunday. For the next four years, 13 ministers will aid him in running the country after his Socialist Party, PS, won an overwhelming majority in the June 25 elections.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament has passed a bill amending the law on ministries, under which two new ministries will be formed - the ministry of environment and the ministry of European integration.

The new government, to be formed by PM-Designate Ana Brnabic, will thus have 18 ministries - two more than the previous government.

Serbia's new government, to be led by Ana Brnabic, will have 18 ministries and three ministers without portfolio.

The Serbian National Assembly late on Monday adopted changes to the Law on Ministries that envisage forming two new ministries - of environmental protection and EU integration.