The president has given the green light to the PM to assess ministers’ work if ruling coalition leaders do not reach an agreement on the government reshuffle.
According to daily Danas, it is less likely that the ruling coalition leaders will agree on the government reshuffle and the Democratic Party (DS) has therefore come up with a new proposal.
Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković says he is convinced the country will become a candidate for EU membership by the end of this year. Cvetković, who is currently visiting Brussels, told B92 late on Monday that it was necessary to “make great effort and reach political agreement in Serbia”.
With only 24 hours left for Nepal’s political parties to name their candidates, the prime ministerial poll Thursday in the turbulent republic is headed for another fiasco. Last year, 16 rounds of vote failed to name a new premier. The dim hope that the three major parties would hammer out an agreement to form a [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday expressed concern at violence against women in various parts of the country and asked the state governments to step up efforts to protect them. “Most of the women in our country also do not have a voice,” Singh said in his inaugural address at the fourth Chief Ministers’ Conference on [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, which witnessed violent protests last year, had improved vastly in the last four months due to measures taken by the state and central governments. “The situation in the state has vastly improved in the last four months following the all-party visit there, the [...]
The internal security situation was by and large stable but serious challenges and threats remained, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Tuesday. Addressing a meeting of chief ministers on internal security here, the prime minister said there were “serious challenges and threats” from left wing extremism, cross border terrorism and fundamentalism. He said left wing [...]
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković has delivered the answers Serbia made to the questionnaire of the European Commission (EC) today in Brussels.
Serbian PM Mirko Cvetković says teachers’ demands are unrealistic and that the government will not make concessions that would undermine economic stability.
He said that the demands of the teachers on strike for an increase of their earnings by 24 percent were unrealistic and could cause a chain reaction of demands for salary and pension increases that would lead to inflation and weaken the domestic currency.
Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will hand the answers to the European Commission (EC) questionnaire to EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on Monday.
The EC is going to prepare an opinion on Serbia’s request for European Union membership based on the answers to the questionnaire.
Prime Minister of Tunisia Mohamed Ghannouchi has appointed 12 new ministers in an interim government, none from the ruling party. Their presence in the government initiated several-days long street protests in the country.
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has hurled more serious accusations at Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty.
Following the adoption of the report on the human organ trafficking by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), he referred to the Swiss senator’s report a “racist”, and said that the “anti-Albanian propaganda had started in Serbia under Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević”.
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has hurled more serious accusations at Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty.
Following the adoption of the report on the human organ trafficking in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) he called Marty a racist and said that the anti-Albanian propaganda had started in Serbia under Slobodan Milošević.
PM Mirko Cvetković says he expects a detailed investigation to follow the adoption of the PACE resolution on the allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo. Cvetković told Tanjug that the resolution supports the Serbian government view that war crimes were committed by all sides during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, but added that Belgrade did not wish to turn the issue into a political matter.
Unable to elect a new prime minister even after 16 rounds of vote held throughout last year and failing two deadlines set this month for an all-party government, Nepal’s warring parties will now slug it out again next month during a fresh round of prime ministerial election Feb 3. The Business Advisory Committee of parliament, [...]
Ireland’s PM Brian Cowen announced Saturday he was stepping down as head of his Fianna Fail party but would remain as the PM ahead of elections in March.
“Taking everything into account, and having discussed the matter with my family, I have decided on my own counsel to step down as uachtarain [president] of Fianna Fail and leader of Fianna Fail,” Cowen told reporters in Dublin.
Tunisia’s PM Mohamed Ghannouchi has promised to leave politics after elections being planned in the wake of President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali’s fall last week.
In a TV interview, the long-serving PM said he would quit “in the shortest possible timeframe”.
Montenegro’s new Prime Minister Igor LukÅ¡ić had talks with the president and prime minister of Serbia Boris Tadić and Mirko Cvetković. This took place during his private visit to Belgrade on Thursday, Beta news agency reported.
