European Parliament

President Klaus Iohannis participated on Thursday and Friday in the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, context in which he presented the results of the Romanian Presidency at the EU Council and reconfirmed Romania's firm support for the Eastern Partnership.

The two will become members of the European Parliament and will be replaced by the following in the BSP list.

MPs decided to terminate Elena Yoncheva and Peter Vitanov from BSP for Bulgaria mandates as deputies. The ground - both will be MEPs in the new European Parliament.

The two will be replaced by the next in the party list.

A new EU summit is planned on June 30th, reported NOVA TV. 

New Democracy leads SYRIZA by between 7.8 and 8.2 percentage points - about one percentage point less than in the 26 May European Parliament election - in a new poll conducted by the Pulse polling company and presented tonight on SKAI television's evening newscast.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said Thursday that the Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union is nearing its end, and the country has successfully fulfilled its mandate and objectives. "The Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union is approaching its end. The forthcoming Finnish presidency has already taken over the majority of the European Council's formats.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Thursday that the Government is working on an advanced study, a package of measures regarding the improvement of the electoral process, showing that the Gov't takes into account that the voting be carried out on several days, but also considers the extension of the vote by mail.

EU leaders meet today and tomorrow at a meeting in Brussels. They have to decide who will be the successor of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission and who will head the European Central Bank, the European External Action Service and the European Council.

Bulgaria is represented by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, writes BNT.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that he was "cautiously optimistic" that EU leaders would agree names to hold the bloc's top jobs when they meet in Brussels on Thursday.

Greece's Golden Dawn sustained significant losses in the two recent election races in Greece. In its former stronghold of Laconia in the Peloponnese, the neo-Nazi party lost more than 50 percent of the support it had in the 2014 European Parliament elections in last month's contest.

Former Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos was elected on Wednesday as leader of Renew Europe, the new central-liberal political grouping in the European Parliament launched by French President Emanuel Macron.