Public choice theory

President Klaus Iohannis has announced on Wednesday that an extraordinary budget revision is being shaped up, destined to earmark money for Health and the payment of technical unemployment. "An extraordinary budget revision is being shaped up which will be carried out in this state of emergency on two levels.

It appears that some government ministers believe that by hiring their cronies, they can control everything. They are mistaken.The proposal of a provision for an unjustified increase in the number of presidents of the council of appeals court judges backfired. Judges were rightly enraged and they made it clear.

Almost 3 million voters of the Republic of Moldova are called on Sunday to elect the new parliament in a poll held simultaneously with a referendum on the reduction of the number of deputies, reported xinhuanet.com

Greece should not return to the past when, for many years, cronyism dominated the promotion policy in the armed and security forces, causing great damage. Back then, it was much more important whose "team" an officer was in and which politician he had a close relationship with, rather than how capable he really was.

Citizens - the majority of whom are addicted to partisan absolutism and accusations against rivals for the destruction that they (alone) have wreaked on the country - might feel perplexed by an assessment of modern Greek history that acknowledges the contribution of all sides to the country's political, economic and social progress.

The message being sent by efforts to reduce spending and waste in the Greek Parliament is absolutely the right one.

Citizens have a right to feel secure in the knowledge that its representatives have all the means and staff available to them that are necessary for them to carry out their duties.

"The biggest surprise proved to be the [Justice and Development Party] AKP representative," wrote the Hürriyet Daily News' Nazlan Ertan after the recent referendum, talking about her experience as a ballot box observer in İzmir.

There are attempts to interfere in our internal affairs but I am fully convinced that these will not be successful, like they have been unsuccessful so far, stated the chairman of the Board of Directors of the venture Information Services Mihail Konstantinov.

The biggest parliamentary force, GERB, is to table a bill changing Bulgaria's electoral system from proportional representation voting to majority voting, a lawmaker has said.

The bill is to be reviewed by the Legal Affairs Commitee on Tuesday and then possibly go to Parliament's floor, Focus News Agency quotes Danail Kirilov, who heads the committee, as saying.

Both the government and the prime minister himself are quick to brush off any suggestions that snap polls may be on the horizon, yet their behavior points to this precise eventuality.