MOSCOW A Russian foreign ministry official said Tuesday that any United States participation in the European Union’s monitoring mission in Georgia would be “extremely harmful,” and increase the likelihood that violence would flare up in the breakaway border regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 

BUCHAREST Romania’s Chamber of Deputies approved with 103 votes in favor, none against and no abstention, the setting up of a committee to investigate how tourism minister Elena Udrea spent public money, the Romanian Mediafax informs. The committee will be made up of deputies of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), …

Bulgaria’s Parliament will forego its summer recess, Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva said on July 28 2009. She was speaking on the eve of the National Assembly finalising the names of committee chairpersons and members. Overtime was needed to bring in legislation from Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s new government, Bulgarian National Television …