Greece's government wins confidence vote
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Greece's conservative government won a vote of confidence early Monday, ending a three-day debate that started with the opposition Socialist Party calling for early elections.
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Italy's lower house of parliament on Saturday approved the 2008 budget by a wide margin after the embattled centre-left government won three confidence votes overnight.
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Greek Economy Minister Yiorgos Alogoskoufis said the Olympic Games had been a good investment for his country, despite earlier misgivings about spiralling costs.
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Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in Italy's upper house on Wednesday to stay on as prime minister, but an opinion poll suggested his grip on power would remain weak.
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ATHENS - Greece's conservative prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, won reelection yesterday with a diminished majority in Parliament after a financial scandal and devastating forest fires that killed more than 65 people last month.
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Venezuela&#39;s electoral authorities Friday ratified the results of a recent referendum that kept President Hugo Chavez in power.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who has come under intense pressure to quit after admitting he lied to voters, won a confidence motion convincingly in parliament on Friday.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has won a vote of confidence in parliament, which he had called to gauge his mandate for continuing unpopular austerity measures after his party was drubbed in local elections at the weekend.
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ISLAMABAD: Newly-elected known as finance wizard Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has secured vote of confidence form the national assembly.
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The liberal coalition government led by Romanian prime minister-designate Calin Popescu Tariceanu won a vote of confidence on Tuesday night from both houses of Parliament.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, ensuring the survival of his center-left government.Comment
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The government on Wednesday defended its decision to radically revise the country&#39;s deficit figures, ahead of a European Commission meeting to consider possible disciplinary action against Greece for submitting faulty figures.
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Hungary's Prime Minister won the backing of members of parliament from the smaller coalition party, the Free Democrats, on Wednesday, ensuring he will easily win Friday's confidence vote.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi  rallied support on Wednesday for two confidence votes that will  determine the survival of his centre-left government after the  defection of an ally erased his Senate majority.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a crucial confidence vote in parliament on Friday over an unpopular budget which he describes as a bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc  Gyurcsany, who has come under intense pressure to quit after  admitting he lied to voters, won a confidence motion  convincingly in parliament on Friday.
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Bulgaria's Socialist-led government survived a no-confidence vote Friday on a motion filed by the opposition, claiming that the government was unable to cope with a health care crisis.Comment