Deputy prime minister

The issue of who will become Serbia's new prime minister will be discussed after the presidential elections, says Zorana Mihajlovic.

Mihajlovic is one of deputy prime minister in the cabinet of PM Aleksandar Vucic, who is running for president, and an official in his ruling SNS party.

During their first cabinet meeting, the caretaker ministers of Bulgaria have agreed on a new structure of the government and have been assigned several tasks.

There will be four Deputy Prime Ministers in the interim government, the same number as in the previous cabinet, according to the list of decisions sent by the government's press office.

Bulgaria's caretaker government officially steps into office on Friday, after the country's new President Ramen Radev signed a decree appointing it on Wednesday.

Led by law professor and former President of the National Assembly Ognyan Gerdjikov, it has four deputy-prime ministers and 15 ministers with a predominantly expert profile.

Radi Naydenov, the Bulgarian Ambassador to Germany, is the most likely designate to become caretaker Foreign Minister, recent media reports have suggested.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic thinks the EU "does not look kindly on Serbia's cooperation with Russia and China."

At the same time, remarked Dacic, who is also Serbia's first deputy prime minister, the EU itself cooperates with these countries.

Zorana Mihajlovic expects the focus of the government in the coming period to be on finishing infrastructure projects.

Mihajlovic is one of deputy prime ministers in the Serbian cabinet, and minister of construction, transport and infrastructure

National Unity Party (UBP) head Hüseyin Özgürgün has started his duty as the new prime minister of Turkish Cyprus, after the country's president approved of the new coalition government cabinet in the wake of the last government's collapse earlier this month.

Leader of the Socialists (SPS) Ivica Dacic has said that he "still believes in continued cooperation" with Aleksandar Vucic's SNS party.

Dacic serves as foreign minister and first deputy prime minister in the current cabinet, led by Prime Minister Vucic.

The mayor of Bosilegrad in eastern Serbia on Friday denied that he and a group of others blocked the road as Zorana Mihajlovic arrived to the town.

Mihajlovic is one of the vice-presidents of the ruling SNS and a deputy prime minister and minister in the current government.

Comparing the incoming and outgoing cabinet ministers, Minister Lütfi Elvan is the new cabinet's deputy prime minister. He had replaced Binali Y?ld?r?m in the Transportation Ministry. Now, Y?ld?r?m is again the transportation minister, taking over the ministry he handed over. Thus they are both successors and predecessors to each other.