Prime minister

Boyko Borisov, who became Bulgaria's Prime Minister on Friday after Parliament gave him the "thumbs up", is certainly a sensation in Bulgaria's politics, being the only head of government who managed to get the office for a second time since democracy was reinstated in 1989.

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French prime minister arrives in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- French Prime Minister Manuel Valls arrived in Belgrade on Thursday and kicked off the visit by a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister-designate Boyko Borisov on Thursday unveiled the list of the 18 ministers in his coalition cabinet.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta, standing for president in the runoff on Nov. 16, told Digi 24 news channel on Wednesday that both as a prime minister and further as president he will remain the greatest supporter of the project aimed at dividing Romania into regions and decentralizing it.

Bulgaria needs to have a parliament-backed government at all costs to address key challenges, interim Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki said on Saturday.

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"Absolute unity" in cabinet, says spokesman

BELGRADE -- Milivoje Mihajlović says there is "absolute unity in the government" while "the PM will not have a tough job when he looks at his ministers' biannual reports."

The comments of the head of the Government Media Office came after media reports that a cabinet reshuffle was in the works.

Almost every TV news station shifted their live coverage to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s press conference on Oct. 24 at lunch time, leaving Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s sentences incomplete. 

The European Union leaders’ summit concluded in Brussels on Friday without any concrete decisions having been taken about Greece’s economic future despite Prime Minister Antonis Samaras holding a series with top officials.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has accused two opposition parties of remaining indifferent to the cruelty in neighboring Syria, in a speech peppered with personal anecdotes and passages from Islamic history.

BELGRADE, Oct 23 (Tanjug) - An informal meeting of foreign and finance ministers of Western Balkan countries on economic management and ties started in Belgrade on Thursday.