News archive of October 2014

GERB leader Boyko Borisov told journalists in Parliament he might return the government mandate next Wednesday, if no agreement is reached.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said a controversial draft bill to tax Internet traffic will be scrapped following mass protests.

"This tax in its current form cannot be introduced because the government wanted to extend a telecommunications tax, but the people see an Internet tax," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Radio Kossuth on Friday.

PARIS - The organization Reporters Without Borders has launched a campaign on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, November 2, highlighting ten emblematic cases of impunity, including the one of Serbian reporter Dada Vujasinovic.

Bosnia's two main Serbian and Croatian parties, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, and the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, agreed in Mostar to join entity and state-level governments together. They said they now seek a partner among the Bosniaks.

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BELGRADE - The law on inspection supervision that will change and improve the efficiency of the state will be put before the parliament by the end of 2014, Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said Friday.

Some 18 police officers, who were detained on Oct. 28 in an investigation into the illegal wiretapping of 123 people in the Mediterranean Turkish province of Mersin, were released on the condition of legal control on Oct. 31.

Greek retail sales by volume rose 7.4 percent in August compared to the same month last year, after a downwardly revised 4.7 percent increase in July, statistics service ELSTAT said on Friday.

Sales volumes rose for the third month in a row, pointing to a boost in consumer spending in the third quarter, which may help dampen deflationary pressures.

Daily: Russia cuts gas deliveries over unpaid debt

BELGRADE -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to cut gas deliveries to Serbia by 28 percent, writes the Belgrade-based daily Danas.

The extension of Sofia's red line will reach the airport in April 2015, said Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova who inspected the construction process.

The inspection established that the work was 72% complete and the metro station at the airport will be finished by end of November.

Foreign jihadists from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts of a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Oct. 31.