Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said today on Monday, 12 September that a re-keep running of Austria's presidential race planned for October has been postponed, after some postal voters griped of faulty seals on ballot papers. The deferment is a further humiliation for Austria, a well off and propelled Western vote based system and EU part, and for the legislature of Chancellor Christian Kern. The decision, which had been because of occurring on 2nd October, was called after issues with tallying postal votes additionally influenced the first vote in May.

A delegation of three members of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission have met with the head of Polish Supreme Court on Monday 12 to check on the health of the country's rule of law. Meetings with members of Polish government and institutions are on the agenda on Tuesday 13. For the second time this year, experts have been sent to Warsaw after the governing Law and Justice party rejected the March body's previous advice to lay off the work of the Constitutional Tribunal. The monition was simply not taken into consideration due to its non-binding nature. As stated by the Commission, the main concern of the mission was the Act on the Constitutional Tribunal adopted by the Polish Parliament earlier on July 22, although it also represented the opportunity of start building constructive talks with representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, and of the Parliament as well.

On the 12 of September, the President of the Czech Republic,  Miloš Zeman held the meeting with the Austrian presidential candidate, Norbert Hofer. After the meeting, Mr Hofer stated to the journalists that he wished for Austria to be included into the Visegrad group. According to Mr Hofer, this union will provide the Central European countries with more influence in the European Union. "We want to create a union in the Union”, Mr Hofer said.  This initiative was supported by Mr Zeman who repeatedly stood up for a broader Visegrad group which would include Austria and Slovenia.

On Sunday, September 11, the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, the Prime Minister of Latvia Māris Kučinskis, the Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa, and the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadi met with Angela Merkel. The purpose of this kind of format is to better understand and listen to European citizens' expectations, from different regions. Various topics including the next Bratislava summit will be addressed.

31.29 percent – the turnout was only so much in the early elections to the House of Representatives or the lower house of the Belarusian parliament. This information handed to the media secretary of the Central Election Commission Mikalai Łazawik. The observers, who from the first day followed the course of the election, noted many irregularities. It lists forcing people to vote or drive up turnout in the protocols. Significant news is that in the previous parliamentary elections in 2012. In the early voting turnout was 25.9 percent.