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Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek has returned a Republican People’s Party (CHP) motion demanding a parliamentary inquiry into Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in relation to a wave of corruption probes.

A prosecutor has sent a case file to Parliament regarding corruption accusations against Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis and MPs will decide whether to lift the New Democracy official’s immunity in the next three months, Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou told the House yesterday.

Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos and two prominent MPs, Christos Pappas and Yiannis Lagos, are expected to appear in Parliament next Wednesday ahead of a vote to lift their immunity on a series of criminal charges.

The three are all in custody pending trial for membership of a criminal organization.

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has filed a motion for a parliamentary inquiry into Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in relation to a wave of corruption probes that first went public on Dec. 17, 2013.

A set of changes to Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Act passed second reading in Parliament.

The bill was submitted by the Council of Ministers and it took a period of over six months to be conclusively approved.

During the second-reading procedure, center-right party GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) said it would expect the President to veto the bill.

Bulgaria's Parliament will debate on Wednesday the no-confidence motion against the Socialist-led cabinet of PM Plamen Oresharski.

In its first plenary session after the European elections, the deputies will discuss the motion in sector energy, proposed by the opposition GERB party.

Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday argued in favor of civil service salaries being based on performance in a document submitted to Parliament.

Stournaras was responding to a question by independent deputies Yiannis Kourakos and Nikos Nikolopoulos in regards to whether the ministry's general secretary for revenues, Haris Theoharis, receives bonuses.

Nikolay Barekov, leader of the Bulgaria without Censorship party, has said that the formation supports a no-confidence motion against the socialist-led government.

According to preliminary results of the European Parliament elections, the Bulgaria without Censorship party of the former TV host will send two MEPs to the European Parliament.

Opposition DS wants parliament to "determine responsibility"

BELGRADE -- Dragan Đilas has said that "it needs to be determined what was happening" during the first days of the flooding in Serbia.

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) believes it should also be investigated whether all necessary steps had been taken regarding the natural disaster.

The MPs of the coalition partners Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) defeated the quorum for the no-confidence motion in Parliament.