People ' s Party

A Turkish deputy who recently hit the headlines with her shoe-equipped protest in Turkey's male-dominated Parliament has joined the global trend of the “ice bucket challenge” by sending German Chancellor Angela Merkel a tongue-in-cheek message.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta would get 46 percent of Romanians' votes in the first round of the presidential elections, while Klaus Iohannis would have 24 percent, the most recent CSCI poll remitted on Monday to AGERPRES shows.

Male-dominated Parliament of Turkey has witnessed a rare moment of protest staged by a female opposition deputy after verbal attacks from the ranks of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) infuriated her.

Millions of Turkish citizens are casting ballots on Sunday in the country's first direct presidential elections.

Some 53 million people are eligible to vote for a head of state to take over from Abdullah Gul, whose seven-year term expires on August 28.

Three options are offered in the polls, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also a contender.

The political formations Blue Unity, Bulgarian Democratic Forum and Unified People's Party and ex-members of the Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, will set up a new coalition. 

Bulgaria's new MEPs have cited eurozone and Schengen accession, the refugee influx, and the abolition of the progress reports of the European Commission as key priorities.

The MEPs gave a press conference Monday at the European Parliament Information Office in Bulgaria to present their agendas in the new European Parliament.

An election stand supporting HDP's presidential candidate Demirtaş was physically attacked, while six people who were handing out allegedly illegal propaganda pamphlets targeting joint candidate İhsanoğlu were briefly detained July 26 The election campaigns of two presidential candidates of Turkey's opposition have faced attacks.

Survey finds support for EU-based solution for Cyprus

After almost two months negotiations on a new authority for the city between the two national ruling parties the Party of Democratic Socialists, DPS, and the Social Democratic Party, SDP, collapsed on Wednesday, the capital could face new elections.

SDP leader Ranko Krivokapic, who is also the speaker of parliament, said new elections are "the most realistic option at this point".

President Traian Basescu in Sinaia, on Saturday, said that the aviation accident of Ukraine, in which 298 people died, cannot be left without an international investigation and without consequences for those responsible for this tragedy.