Promise

The surprise winners in Bulgaria's third general election this year promise a radical break from past corruption - but the public has heard these pledges before.

Ljubljana – The centre for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region Oštro and the institute Danes Je Nov Dan (Today Is a New Day) have launched a web platform where a list of promises made by politicians will be published as a reminder to them that they have a responsibility towards citizens.

Bucharest, Jan 29 /Agerpres/ - Several dozen people are protesting in front of the "Matei Bals" Hospital, on Friday evening, following the fire occurred this morning in this medical institution, a tragedy that resulted in five deaths. Eugen Iancu, president of the GTG 3010 Colectiv Association is present at the protest.

There will be competition this year to find a punchy way to sum up this transitional, and potentially transformative, year for Greece. "Clean exit" is one of the terms that has been thrown about a lot recently, while even the "Grecovery" mantra of 2014 has been repeated in the past few months by those expecting to reap the benefits of Greece completing its third bailout this summer.

Like everybody else, we are sick and tired of people -and especially politicians- who do not keep their promises. But Paola Saulino, although not exactly a politician, she has kept her promise and she is starting a tour around Italy.

Opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakakis's pledge to lower a series of taxes, including the unified property tax known as ENFIA, in the first two years of his mandate in the event that he is elected, is a major step.

However, this promise, which he made during a televised interview late on Thursday, must be accompanied by fully costed proposals.

Albania's centre-left government has fully met only four of its 27 electoral promises after two-and-a-half years in power, an NGO has claimed.

While presenting what it called it "truth-meter" Mjaft representatives noted - among others - that the government had failed to open 300,000 new workplaces as it had pledged.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has instructed his party officials to draft an urgent action plan to keep the election promises he has made - particularly in regard to the economy. 

A commission will duly be established to determine which promises will first be fulfilled by the government to be formed by Davuto?lu. 

?You turn if you want to. The lady?s not for turning.?

I do not know in which context she said it, but this iconic sentence used in a speech delivered at the U.K. parliament belongs to late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.