Progressive Alliance

The Cypriot Parliament has adopted a government budget that envisions an increase in spending of only 0.6 percent.

The budget forecasts state revenue of 5.928 billion euros compared with 5.952 billion euros in 2014, with spending of 6.660 billion euros.

The House of Representatives approved the tight spending plan late Tuesday by a vote of 29-26.

Just a few hours ahead of a crucial presidential ballot on Wednesday, Greece's conservative-led government warned that failure to elect a new President could have devastating consequences for the country.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has appealed to the high court for the annulment of certain articles of a controversial new judicial package, on the grounds that they breach Turkey's Constitution.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has referred to a tragic seven-year-old event from Japan to criticize the government and a former Cabinet minister over alleged bribery and corruption.

BELGRADE - Leader of the Democratic Party (DS) Bojan Pajtic has met on Tuesday with a delegation of the Italian Senate and said that the role of this party was crucial for the initiation of Serbia's European integration process 14 years ago.

Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, scored its latest local government poll win on Sunday in Herceg Novi, a town on the Montenegrin-Croatian border.

Although no party won an absolute majority in Sunday's poll, it was clear that the united opposition list had lost its majority for the first time in 14 years.

Macedonia's main opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, has come out against the country's proposed new coat of arms, saying the plan is being pushed as a distraction from the real problems.

"This is a typical example of how the government tries to shift public attention from the many affairs and scandals that they have to answer for," SDSM spokesperson Petre Shilegov said.

Ex-president's party "could join reshuffled cabinet"

BELGRADE -- Opposition Social Democratic Party leader Boris Tadic says he "leaves open the possibility of joining a new, reshuffled Serbian government in January."

BELGRADE - Democratic Party (DS) leader Bojan Pajtic met with the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport on Thursday to discuss a letter he recently sent on behalf of the party to foreign ambassadors in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Political parties in Serbia either lack the mechanisms and procedures to fight corruption, or they are inefficient, said the participants of a conference on fighting corruption in Serbia and the role of political institutions.