News archive of February 2016

Wax sculptures representing Serbia's prime minister and his first deputy, Aleksandar Vucic and Ivica Dacic, will be on display in in the own of Jagodina.

They will be added to the local wax museum's collection - but only "after the election."

Iranian moderates have won a majority in parliament and a top clerical body charged with selecting the next supreme leader, dealing a major blow to hard-liners in the first elections held since last summer's landmark nuclear agreement with world powers.

Benjamin Cleary, who wrote, directed and edited the “Stutterer”, accepted the award with producers Serena Armitage and Shan Christopher Ogilvie, and Greek-Australian director of photography Michael Paleodimos.

Bulgaria's business climate indicator has increased by 0.5 percentage points compared to the previous month due to improved expectations of managers about the state of their businesses over the next six months, the statistical office NSI announced on Monday.

Turkey's main opposition leader will not engage in "bazaar diplomacy" with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the AKP's ambitions for a change of regime at an inter-party constitution commission the parliament speaker is currently attempting to rebuild.

Turkey's foreign trade deficit declined 13.4 percent year-on-year in January, in line with the oil plunge and the decreasing trend in imports. 

In January, the deficit fell to $3.76 billion, down from $4.34 billion from same month last year, plummeting 13.4 percent, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) on Feb. 29. 

The number of foreign arrivals from Russia to Turkey declined significantly in the first month of 2016, temporary data from the Tourism Ministry showed on Feb. 29. 

A total of 22,106 people from Russia visited Turkey in January, a decline of 56.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. 

The right-wing Authentic Croatian Party of Rights showed off around two dozen uniformed activists from its so-called Patriotic Guard in Ban Josip Jelacic Square in Zagreb on Sunday. On the other side of a police cordon, anti-fascists and Workers’ Front members protested against what they called a “fascist” display.

Nebojsa Stefanovic and Hans Friedrich Schodder on Monday "discussed the latest events concerning the large influx of migrants and refugees in Europe."

Serbia's interior minister and the UNHCR representative also spoke about the migrants' "transit through the Western Balkans."

A political leaders meeting chaired by President of Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos will take place on Friday, according to sources.

The same sources said that earlier on Monday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke on the phone with Mr. Pavlopoulos. Mr.Tsipras had also a phone contact with main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.