Political spectrum

The lists of names of important civil servants who have resigned to run for office in general elections are printed in newspapers. These are, of course, the famous ones that the papers are interested in.

We know that the "real list" is much longer.

This is not a new situation.

MP Ana Birchall of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), high representative of Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta for European affairs and partnership with the US, has underscored the importance of continuing to consolidate the existing strategic partnership between Romania and the US, both on a military and on an economic level.

Turkey's highest administrative court has made a landmark ruling, convicting the Prime Ministry over the leaking of a report that included illegitimate records about the main opposition leader while ordering it to pay compensation.

Former cabinet secretary Panayiotis Baltakos, who resigned last April after the emergence of a video of him in conversation with Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, appeared before magistrate Costas Sariotis on Friday.

A lawmaker from a Nazi-inspired Greek party, who achieved notoriety for assaulting two female left-wing colleagues during a live TV talk show, has gone on trial over the incident.

The leadership of Golden Dawn used its political party status as a vehicle to impose the organization?s neo-Nazi positions through force, according to a judicial ruling that led to 72 GD members, including all the party?s MPs, being indicted on criminal charges.

Macedonia's Independent Journalists' Trade Union, SSNM, has slated a ban on the publication of compromising material in relation to the case involving the head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM.

Parliamentary debates scheduled to begin today on the government's contentious new security bill have been postponed at least until next week.

The government has vehemently defended its contentious new security bill, which is set to be on parliament's agenda on Feb. 4, amid strict objections from all opposition parties, who argue that the bill signals a return to the "police state" in Turkey.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Vice Chairman Sezgin Tanr?kulu has said women lack representation at the Constitutional Court, following the retirement of the sole female at the court due to a restriction on age.

Tanr?kulu also stated that women lack representatives in all fields of life under the current Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule.