Bulgaria said on Wednesday (July 18th) it is sending an official request to Tripoli for the transfer of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV.

Speaking to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Tuesday (July 17th), Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said expedited EU accession is his country’s top priority. Jeremic said he believed entry into the bloc is the ultimate goal for all countries in the region, spurring co-operation.

Dick Marty, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur who recently wrote a report on alleged illegal CIA detentions in Romania and Poland, came under fire by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Tuesday (July 17th).