A Sofia court ordered pre-trial detention for a man who aimed a gun at a top ethnic Turkish politician during a party conference on live television.The court refused bail for Oktay Enimehmedov, the 25-year-old who pointed the tear-gas gun at the head of Ahmed Dogan, ex-leader of the Movement for …

Atifete Jahjaga and Tomislav Nikolic are likely to meet in February or March, the office of the Kosovo President has confirmed.Ramush Tahiri, political advisor to the President of Kosovo, told Kosovo’s public broadcaster on January 21 that Atifete Jahjaga is likely to meet her Serbian counterpart, Tomislav Nikolic, late in …

Economically stricken Romania has decided to cut various allowances for parliamentarians.Romanian MPs are facing austerity, with their monthly housing stipends and travel expenses being halved, according to the assembly draft budget for 2013. An MP’s monthly allowance for housing will drop from 7,400 lei (some 1,650 euro) to 4,000 lei. …