News archive of November 2015

Teen boys have another reason to weep this year as the Pirelli calendar adopts a new theme – Feminism!

Once filled with glamorous women, nude models and sexuality, the 2016 Pirelli calendar has taken a turn and swaps raunchy nudes for activists, campaigners and generally women of substance and achievement.

The Budget and Finance Committee of the Bulgarian parliament approved on Monday the draft government budget for next year.

The chairperson of the committee, Menda Stoyanova, proposed the planned cuts to the social benefits of police officers, which had been the cause of large-scale protests across the country earlier in November, to be dropped.

Rubicon, a Greek team of anti-establishment protesters invaded the Italian consulate in the center of Athens on Monday evening.

The group invaded the building reacting to the possible extradition of five Greek students to Italy, who are wanted for incidents that took place in Milan last May during the ‘No expo’ protest.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris and discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine, as a White House official stated according to Reuters.

The fights against terrorism and global warming are closely linked, French President Francois Hollande said on Nov. 30 as more than 150 world leaders met in Paris for the United Nations Cop 21 climate change conference two weeks after deadly Islamist militant attacks in France's capital. 

Serbia "submitted its greenhouse gas reduction plans in June this year," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told the UN Climate Conference in Paris on Monday.

This made the country "one of the first ten countries in the world - and the first in the region - to officially submit a national contribution plan," he said.

Defense minister: "Vucic most in danger, army will protect him"

According to estimates of security services Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic is the person most in danger, and the army is "absolutely ready to protect him."

Around 1,250 trucks carrying Turkish exports have been blocked from entering Russia and are stranded at border posts awaiting clearance, a senior shipping industry representative told Reuters on Nov. 30.

US President Barack Obama expressed on Monday regret to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the downed Russian Su-24 bomber.

Putin and Obama met on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is taking place in Paris between November 30 and December 11.

The representative of the European Central Bank, Rasmus Refer, stated that should be the last negotiation round adding that the non-performing loans suspend development in Greece and, thus, it should be dealt with, revealing also that Greece’s creditors have many suggestions on how to manage the non-performing loans.