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Lawmakers adopted long-delayed changes to Bosnia's excise law early on Friday after an almost 15-hour-long debate in parliament and amid resistance from major opposition parties, who argued that the price hikes would hit the public.

The move will unblock around a billion euros of development funds for Bosnia, Reuters news agency reported.

BELGRADE - The 2018 budget cannot give the maximum to everyone as the goal is to ensure stability and permanent GDP growth, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic told MPs during the debate on the new budget bill.

Europe is not ready for a federal system, trusted allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) have said, rejecting a vision for the continent as proposed by Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), a former coalition partner.

Hundreds of Romanians went yesterday to a new protest in the capital Bucharest, Darik radio reported, citing AP.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that the so-called tax reform approved by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), major at rule, has generated uncertainties that could affect investor confidence.

Prosecutors with the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) took precautionary measures against Liviu Dragnea's [Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber and chairman of the Social Democratic Party] mobile and immovable assets, but also against the rest of the suspects in the "Tel Drum" case, DNA announced on Tuesday.

An ex-employee at Facebook’s Germany headquarters revealed the tactics the company used to silence critics of the liberal German government.

Romania's Social Democratic Party (PSD)-led government is set to adopt a controversial new Fiscal Code, despite widespread opposition from unions, the business community, and the public administration.

Several thousand Romanians protested on Sunday evening in front of the Bucharest government building against the intention of the authorities to amend a number of laws affecting the justice system, according to a news agency quoted by BGNES. Protesters brought billboards with inscriptions - "We want independent justice!", "Democracy is in a siege!", "Early elections!".

As a Croatian investigative parliamentary committee prepares to hear the first testimonies on how the country's biggest private company, Agrokor, was created, many irregularities from the privatisation processes of the 1990s are expected to be revealed.