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BELGRADE - Building a strong opposition is one of the main challenges in reforming Serbia because the major asymmetry between the government and the opposition constitutes a threat to political stability, leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDS) Boris Tadic stated in Brussels on Friday.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) parliamentary groups will decide on Monday on the President's proposal for the designation of Eduard Hellvig as Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) head, PSD Chairman, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Friday.

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The Montenegrin parliament's Committee on International Relations on Thursday failed to agree on the candidacy of the former Mayor of Podgorica, Miomir Mugosa, for the post of ambassador to Slovenia.

Opposition MPs and deputies from the junior ruling party, the Social Democratic Party, SDP, boycotted the session.

BELGRADE - The motion to launch the procedure to dismiss Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic cannot be put on the agenda of the parliament's session because it has not been put forward by a minimum of one third of MPs, Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Thursday.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski declined on Monday to comment directly on the latest press conference of the opposition Social Democrats SDSM on Sunday, where five recordings were presented involving discussions between state officials, judges and a pro-government news editor on appointments of judges as well as court cases and prosecutors' work.

Five conversations were published on Sunday at a press conference of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, involving discussions between top state officials, judges and a pro-government news editor about the appointment of judges as well as court cases and prosecutors' work.

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.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Democratic Party (DS) headed by party leader Bojan Pajtic has taken part in a working meeting of the Presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES), where they expressed their support of a view that pursuing economic policies relying exclusively on savings measures needs to come to an end as soon as possible.

BRUSSELS/BELGRADE- Bojan Patic, president of the Democratic Party (DS), underlined at meeting with European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister that the EU enlargement must not come to a halt, and urged the opening of the association negotiations with Serbia as soon as possible.