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Fredi Beleri was released from a prison in Albania on Monday, September 2, and on Monday, September 9, is expected in Brussels, where he will serve as a member of the European Parliament after being elected on the ticket of Greece's governing New Democracy in June.

Thousands of left-wing demonstrators on Sept. 7 took to the streets across France to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron's "power grab."

Protests took place in Paris as well as other cities including Nantes in the west, Nice and Marseille in the south and Strasbourg in the east.

Shortly after Azzedine Ounahi arrived in Greece via private flight, Panathinaikos officially announced the completion of the transfer. The agreement sees Panathinaikos taking the player on loan for the current season, paying €500,000 in rent, as well as covering his full salary.

Monday's decision by an Albanian court to grant the release of the ethnic Greek elected mayor of Himare and MEP for New Democracy Fredi Beleri after 16 months of detention essentially ended his personal adventure but does not lead to an automatic improvement in Greek-Albanian relations, which have been seriously damaged by the affair.

Other words to love each other… This could summarize the video released this week by the 24-year-old Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou, announcing his collaboration with Turkish Cypriot YouTuber Ibrahim Beycanli, known as “Urban Cypriot.” The hallmark of this collaboration, with an unknown goal and other unknown elements, is a hug at the Ledra Street checkpoint that divides Nicosia

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 Beleri, a jailed member of Albania's ethnic Greek minority elected last month to the European Parliament, has been granted leave by the Albanian authorities to attend the legislature to be sworn in.

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.

As European leaders flock to Washington for the NATO Summit, selecting the new European leadership is in full swing in Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen is engaged in a series of meetings to prevent any accidents in the secret ballot in Strasbourg next week.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has overturned a previous judgment against Bulgaria for the first time, declaring the complaint inadmissible following a request by government agents from the Ministry of Justice. This extraordinary procedure was initiated on the grounds that the behavior of the applicant and their legal representative constituted an abuse of right.