Constitutional Court

The defense of Miroslav Miskovic has requested that their client be given back the EUR 12 in bail money that he paid to be released from custody.

This has been reported by N1 broadcaster, who said the motion was submitted after the Constitutional Court ruled that the decision on detaining Miskovic was unconstitutional.

Former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov has said there is no constitutional limit to the number of terms a head of state can serve.

In an interview with private Kanal 3 TV station, he has argued he can be "a successful President, just as [he was]," but has stopped short of declaring he will run.

Thousands of people took to the streets in more than 30 cities across Poland on Jan. 23 to "defend freedom" and protest against the conservative government.

"We are not revolutionaries," said Mateusz Kijowski, founder of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) which organized the demonstrations.

Bosnian authorities will need to find a solution for local elections in Mostar in the next few weeks if they want to organise polls in the city, experts warn.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled for Turkey to be fined over a police raid on the office building of Nokta magazine upon a military court ruling in 2007 stating that the raid constituted a violation of freedom of expression.

This is not a surprise.

We are fully occupied with the declaration of the academics for a whole week. If you take into consideration what top officials are saying, then this is Turkey's number one issue for the moment. 

Political parties in Montenegro will receive about 6.56 million euro from the state budget this year - almost twice as much as they were allocated in 2012, when the last general elections were held.

Of the funds, 4.63 million euro are intended for the financing of regular party work and 1.93 million for the campaign for the general elections planned this year.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Turkey for dissolving a political party in 2009 for alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), saying the party did not promote violence nor warrant such a severe sanction.

The ruling that parts of the Brussels-brokered agreements with Serbia were unconstitutional swelled the ranks of opposition protesters who caused unrest on the streets of Pristina on Saturday, experts suggested.

In a ruling likely to set a precedent for similar cases, Turkey's top court has halted the deportation of an Iranian family, arguing their deportation could jeopardize the "material and moral integrity" of the family and they could face "ill-treatment."