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The second meeting in coalition-making process will take place July 14 between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), whose partnership for a government is seen as very likely. 

Dressed in a denim shirt and black jeans, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt cracked jokes and took selfies with supporters on the island of Bornholm, just days before a June 18 election that could end her political career. 

Former minister Liviu Dragnea, sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term on Friday, has submitted on Monday his resignation from the executive chairmanship of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD). He had already resigned from the ministry of administration on Friday; a decision on his retirement from the party leadership will be taken by the PSD National Executive Council on Wednesday.

A senior Romanian minister was convicted on May 15 of electoral fraud over a 2012 attempt to impeach a president and political rival, a judgment that dealt a blow to Prime Minister Victor Ponta's efforts to demonstrate to the EU a hard line on graft. 

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the head of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) reviewed on Monday the achievements of his governing over the past three years since the USL (Social Liberal Union, PSD's alliance with the National Liberal Party PNL) toppled the Democrat Liberal Party (PDL) government led by then PM Mihai Razvan Ungureanu.

The results of Sunday's elections reflected the current balance in support between the two strongest Croatian parties, the centre-left SDP and opposition centre-right HDZ.

A total of 71,000 voters went to the polls in five Croatian towns and five municipalities, in the second round of early elections for town and municipality mayors.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta published on Sunday on his personal blog the report of his governing; it shows 80 percent of the goals assumed in his original programme were reached.

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After Bosnian leaders adopted a joint declaration pledging continued support for the EU integration process, the EU's Foreign Affairs Council on Monday activated the country's Stabilisation and Association Agreement, SAA.

The governing centre-left SDP has decided to focus on what it says are the progressive reforms it has made since it came to power as the centrepiece of its campaign for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, Croatian media reported on Monday.

Estonia is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday marked by concerns over Russia's actions in Ukraine.