Labour Party

Britain's economy slowed sharply in the first three months of 2015, a setback for Prime Minister David Cameron who has staked his campaign for re-election next week on the strength of the recovery. 

Gross domestic product grew by 0.3 percent in the January-March period, the slowest quarterly rate since the end of 2012 when there were fears Britain was heading into recession. 

Opposition leader Ed Miliband insisted he was ready to be Britain's next prime minister as he launched a manifesto April 13 designed to boost his party's reputation on the economy.

Dutch voters headed to the polls on March 18 in local elections that look set to deal a blow to Prime Minister Mark Rutte by indirectly undermining his center-right government in the upper house of parliament.

Provincial elections determine the make-up of the upper house because the winners get to pick new senators in May.

Murat Bozlak, a deputy of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former leader of the now-defunct People's Democracy Party (HADEP), passed away on the night of Jan. 4. He was 62.

After Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's labour minister, said that the government managed to cut unemployment by more than six per cent in a year, experts cautioned that the labour market outlook is not as rosy as he has suggested.

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A Dutch right-wing political party has demanded Netherlands be cleared of mosques, amid an ongoing row over the integration of Muslim and Turkish minorities in the country.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labour, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin has met with officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Zuzana Murgasova, to discuss his ministry's activities in the areas of social dialogue, social protection, labour legislation and labour inspection.

Two lawmakers of Turkish descent from the Netherlands’ Labor Party (PvdA) have been expelled after refusing to support their party’s critical remarks about a number of Turkish organizations that were accused of being “too focused on promoting Turkish and Islamic identity.”

Two lawmakers of Turkish descent from the Netherlands’ Labor Party (PvdA) have been expelled after refusing to support their party’s critical remarks about a number of Turkish organizations that were accused of being “too focused on promoting Turkish and Islamic identity.”

BELGRADE - The adoption of the draft law to ratify the International Labour Organisation's Convention concerning Labour Clauses in Public Contracts will introduce order into road maintenance companies, primarily in terms of employee safety, Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said on Tuesday.