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No less than ? 278.7 billion euros is the sum cited by the Greek finance ministry in calculating war reparations dating to the German occupation of Greece during WWII (April 1941-October 1944).

Alternate FinMin Dimitris Mardas cited the figure a statement to a recently established Parliamentary committee of inquiry established to examine the country's external debt.

BELGRADE - The Parliamentary Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government accepted in principle on Wednesday the bill on inspection control.

The bill was forwarded to the parliament, which is to table it for discussion at its Thursday's session.

STRASBOURG - Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic attended the concluding debate on the European Parliament (EP) report on Serbia's progress in Strasbourg late on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Minister Joksimovic will have a series of meetings with EP representatives.

BELGRADE - Director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights Suzana Paunovic and Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality Meho Omerovic talked on Thursday with a delegation of the German Bundestag about the human and minority rights situation in Serbia, with a special emphasis on the position and problems of the Roma national minority.

Opposition SYRIZA deputies were not expected to participate in a Parliamentary committee overlooking constitutional reforms proposed by the current coalition government, it emerged on Thursday.

SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras notified House Speaker Evangelos Meimarakis of the party’s decision on Thursday.

The election of the president by popular mandate, the abolition of MPs' immunity from prosecution and the reduction of the number of deputies serving in Parliament are but some of the proposals put together by a New Democracy committee for constitutional reform.

In 2013 Bulgaria's special services, police, prosecution and courts made 98 258 requests for information on consumers' internet and phone traffic, reports Sega daily. 

This, according to a report of the Parliamentary committee for control on security agencies and electronic information access, is three times more than in 2010. 

Around 20 000 of the requests have been granted.

A Parliamentary committee on Wednesday ruled in favor of lifting the immunity of three Golden Dawn deputies in connection to an ongoing probe with regard to the operations of the ultranationalist party.

Vladimir Pisanchev, the head of Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (DANS), is to testify at a Parliamentary Committee.

He is to give his account regarding claims of intercepted calls of GERB's Sofia Municipal Councilor Orlin Aleksiev to politicians, business representatives and magistrates, Dnevnik.bg has reported.