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After 16 months in an Albanian prison, Fredi Beleri has been granted early release. His request, which had been postponed three times, was approved on Monday.

After 16 months in an Albanian prison, Fredi Beleri's request for early release will be heard on Monday.

This request comes after a third postponement, with reports from Greece indicating optimism about the outcome.

Albania's Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country's Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.

A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the verdicts of the court of first instance and the court of appeal which had sentenced Fredi Beleri, 51, to two years in prison.

Fredi Beleris has received permission to travel to Strasbourg and take his oath of office as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) after significant pressure and subsequent concession from Albanian authorities.

On Wednesday, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) aligned with other far-right parties to establish a new alliance within the European Parliament, marking the formation of the smallest and most radical far-right group to date.

Cypriot MEP Phidias Panayiotou, whose candidacy made waves on the international political scene, addresses a question many might have wondered: how much does a Member of the European Parliament earn?

Seeking to acquaint ourselves with the retired livestock farmer who is among the 21 MEPs who will represent Greece in the European Parliament, we visited Toula Alexandrakis' butcher shop in Alexandroupoli, northeastern Greece. Fortunately for us, she had defied the terrible heat and opened the business as usual, and was waiting for her son to come and take over before the morning rush.

MEPs and Tusk are the negotiators of the EPP and Solts and Sanchez respectively from the Socialists - Optimism for an agreement even today - Details of which names are destined for which positions

Following the 2-in-1 elections in Bulgaria, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has finalized the mandates for the European Parliament. Notably, Rosen Zhelyazkov from GERB and Jevdet Chakarov and Iskra Mihailova from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) declined their positions as MEPs.

Despite their significant boost in almost all 27 countries in the European Union, far-right parties failed to create the momentum they expected in Sunday's European Parliament elections: Securing only 120-140 seats out of 720, Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni with the European Conservatives (ECR) and France's Marine Le Pen with the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, are not expected to threaten t