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Main opposition Republican People's Party's leader (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed the Turkish government over a court's recent "Ergenekon verdict" for trying to distance itself from a trial which the government in the past strongly supported.

"Four countries fund the manifestations of radical Islamism in Bulgaria. Target is the Roma population, ghettos in particular. " Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov said during his visit to Rousse. The recent case, with a Bulgarian citizen arrested and convicted in Austria, is proof of this in his view.

Anti-fascists in the Croatian city of Sibenik staged a protest during the promotion of a book that downplays the crimes committed at the Ustasa-run Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.

The European Parliament is calling for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Konstantinos Katsifas, a 35-year-old ethnic Greek man who was fatally shot by Albanian authorities in the southern village of Bularat at the end of last month in what was described by Albanian authorities as an exchange of fire.

Movement for Change leader Fofi Gennimata on Wednesday warned that an ongoing debate over the separation of church and state could jeopardize unity within the clergy, accusing ruling SYRIZA and opposition New Democracy of putting "petty party interests" first.

İYİ (Good) Party and Republican People's Party (CHP) are having talks of forming an alliance for the upcoming local elections, mainly focused on nine metropolises, İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener said on Nov. 27.

A new film by BIRN Serbia, "SNS - pocetak, 2008" ["SNS - the start, 2008"], delves into the origins and rise of the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, which has ruled the country since 2012.

During the making of the film, BIRN journalists talked with many  individuals from Serbian public life, but also from the US, who had a role in the creation of the SNS.

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis presents New Democracy's education program at the Hellenic Cosmos cultural center in Athens on Saturday. Mitsotakis attacked the incumbent leftists for unraveling Greece's education system, while pledging to green-light the establishment of private universities and abolish the so-called asylum legislation if elected prime minister.

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has decided not to nominate metropolitan mayoral candidates in Turkey's three biggest provinces, in a bid to support the People's Alliance formed with the ruling Justice and Development Party.

BSP leader Kornelia Ninova will send a letter to all European ambassadors in Bulgaria indicating that the country has police oppression and authoritarianism and that attempts are being made to restrict the rights of citizens of different positions and the opposition.