Liberalism

By Angelos Stangos

BELGRADE - Parties reported that they spend over RSD 2 billion on the 2014 parliamentary elections and more than 40 percent of the sum (RSD 942 million) was claimed by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) which won the majority support of the voters, Transparency Serbia released on Friday.

EU source: Serbia can count on about EUR 10 million

BRUSSELS -- Despite announcement about "a billion euros in aid from the EU solidarity fund," Serbia can hardly count on more than around EUR 10 million from this fund.

Tanjug learned this from from a source in the European Commission on Tuesday.

Daniel Kaddik is the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom's Project Director for Southeast Europe. His fields of expertise include EU integration, the EU's Eastern Enlargement and its Eastern Partnership programs.

BELGRADE - Members of the delegation of the Serbian parliament cast different votes concerning the adoption of the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) which deprived the Russian delegation of the right to vote until January 2015.

BELGRADE - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Cedomir Jovanovic said after a meeting of the LDP leaders that he would not resign ecause of the party's defeat in the early parliamentary election on March 16.

The party has to find inner strength and conduct the necessary organizational and staff changes, Jovanovic said after the meeting of the LDP Presidency on Thursday.

Senior officials of the opposition Democratic Party are gathering support to topple Dragan Djilas as leader, following the party's disastrous election result.

Romania's centre-left coalition looked close to splitting up after Klaus Johanis, a leader of National Liberal Party, PNL, on Monday said he was “not very optimistic that the coalition will survive tomorrow.

“We failed to find a solution to the proposed cabinet changes. As a result, our party will decide on Tuesday if our ministers will leave the government or not,” he added.

BELGRADE - Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Ivan Andric said on Wednesday that LDP proposes formation of a reform council, which would serve as a government advisory body with the widest possible political support.