News archive of August 2015
Opposition parties kick-off election rallies
New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis on Monday kicked off the center-right party’s pre-election campaign from the city of Patras, saying the mainstream political formation is the one that supports unity among the Greek people.
“Others want to divide us with their rhetoric,” he told supporters at an indoor sports arena.
High court upholds fine against TV station for racy weather gal (Watch vid – You judge!)
Greece’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, on Monday published a decision that maintains a fine against an Athens television station for its raunchy prime-time weather reports by a scantily clad presenter.
The original fine was levied by the board of the National Council for Radio-Television, an independent broadcast watchdog agency, known as ESR.
Bulgaria Fin Min Expects 0.7% Budget Surplus as of End-August
Bulgaria's central government budget is expected to show a surplus of BGN 601M equivalent to 0.7% of the projected 2015 GDP as of August 31, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
The expected figure is improvement on end-August 2014, when the central government budget showed a deficit of BGN 1.28B, or 1.6% of GDP, the Finance Ministry said in a monthly budget forecast.