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The candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) in this week's presidential election, Klaus Iohannis, has stated, on Thursday, at private broadcaster Digi 24, that he will have, as president, a fair institutional collaboration with Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

BELGRADE - The Greens of Serbia urged Serbian MPs on Wednesday to follow in the footsteps of their colleagues in the European Parliament (EP) who voted to allow EU Member States to introduce bans on GMO cultivation in their territory.

A reference in Friday’s European Council conclusions calling on Turkey to respect Cyprus’s sovereign rights left Athens and Nicosia content with the outcome of the European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels.

The European Union leaders’ summit concluded in Brussels on Friday without any concrete decisions having been taken about Greece’s economic future despite Prime Minister Antonis Samaras holding a series with top officials.

The EU's aim to curtail carbon emissions by 40 percent and boost green energy's share in the mix by 27 percent, adopted Friday, can also be accomplished by Bulgaria, President Rosen Plevneliev said.

Greece will only be able to access to a precautionary credit line, currently being discussed between Greek government officials and their eurozone counterparts, if the country finds itself locked out of capital markets, according to sources in Brussels where a European Council summit was in progress on Friday.

European Union leaders are expected to express “serious concern” on Friday at Turkey’s breach of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as it emerged on Thursday that a third Turkish warship is now sailing in the waters south of the island.

European Union leaders will call on Turkey to respect Greek Cyprus's sovereign rights, expressing "serious concern" at fresh tensions between the two countries over oil and gas exploration, a draft summit document showed Oct. 23.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to represent Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the European Council and a European conservative leaders' meeting on Thursday after the latter was admitted and later discharged from a Brussels hospital following repeated nosebleeds caused by high blood pressure.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades was admitted to a hospital in Brussels on Thursday morning following repeated nosebleeds caused by high blood pressure.

He was discharged a few hours later but was advised to rest for the next two days, government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said in a statement.