Former PM Godmanis asked to form Latvia govt
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Veteran politician Ivars Godmanis was nominated as Latvia's prime minister on Friday and will try to form a centre-right government in the Baltic state.
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Iraq's prime minister urged ministers from the main Sunni Arab bloc on Saturday to return to their vacant government posts, suggesting he would soon form a new cabinet if they refused.
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"I might put them on eBay for auction to get the funds back"  Riga - Latvia's former president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, is considering using eBay to auction off the wardrobe she wore in office in an attempt to recoup money she spent to look attractive and presidential. via Independent Online
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Former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, who was impeached and ousted from office in April, has sued the government for compensation, his lawyer said on Friday.
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Belgium's caretaker prime minister has accepted a request from King Albert to form an interim government.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on former members of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army to join Iraq's new security forces in an effort to restore peace to the war-racked country.
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Latvia's Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis said Wednesday that he would step down on Dec. 5 and that the four-party ruling coalition would immediately begin searching for a new head of government, his spokesman said.
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Former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov on Friday urged President Georgi Parvanov and Socialist leader Sergey Stanishev to respond to allegations of funding their party has received from the regime of former Iraqi ...
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The Nepalese prime minister has made a fresh appeal to Maoist rebels to join talks to end their insurgency. The Maoists have been engaged in an armed struggle since 1996 to replace the monarchy with a communist republic.
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Latvia's center-right government appeared headed for a return to power in a parliamentary election on Saturday, according to an early exit poll.
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Romania's new centrist Prime Minister  Calin Tariceanu asked his cabinet on Thursday to review all  public contracts signed by the previous administration to  eliminate any possible corruption.
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Lithuania has issued an arrest warrant for the country's former Economy Minister, Victor Uspaskich.
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Former prime minister quizzed by officers for third time.
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The worldâs leading finance ministers called Friday for a joint effort to set up guidelines for government-owned investment funds.
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Hungaryâs Laszlo Kovacs, Italyâs Franco Frattini and Latviaâs Andris Piebalgs were interviewed on Monday and yesterday. Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso had to change his proposed team after it became
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga has been nominated by the leaders of the three Baltic states to run for the post of United Nations secretary general, the president's spokeswoman has said.
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Next prime minister also hints at bringing business figures into government.