News archive of May 2016

A three day informative event within the frame of the European project FOCUS, was held by Municipality of Agia from 16th to 18th of October 2015.

The European Court of Human Right (ECHR) has ruled Turkey should pay 14,300,000 Euros in compensation to a Greek-Cypriot woman for violating her property rights.

The completion of the transaction for the sale of 67 percent of Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) to Cosco is still pending due to obstacles and delays, as demonstrated by Tuesday's interrupted OLP general meeting.

Greek shipowners are among the net gainers in the global financial crisis, as they have managed to consolidate their domination of the global industry since 2009, while other national fleets have weakened.

Bulgaria consolidated budget showed a surplus of BGN 2.35 B as of end-April, equivalent to 2.6% of the projected 2016 GDP.

This compared with consolidated budget surplus of BGN 1.07 B, equivalent to 1.2% of GDP at the end of April  2015.

PAOK will follow champion Olympiakos to the Champions League qualifiers after drawing 1-1 with Panathinaikos on Tuesday in the last round of games of the Super League play-offs.

According to a phone poll conducted by ICM for British newspaper ‘Guardian’, 45% of those asked said they favoured the UK exiting the European Union compared to 42% who said they preferred the country remained in the EU.

Tsvetana Pironkova on Tuesday became the first Bulgarian female tennis player to reach the quarter-finals at Roland Garros French Open since Sesil Karantancheva in 2005.

Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland lost  2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Pironkova ranked 100 spots below her.

When the match was originally suspended on Sunday evening due to rain, Radwanska was leading 6-2, 3-0. 

After days of vehement criticism for slipping a provision into a recent multi-bill of reforms that removed a blanket ban on MPs and public officials from being involved in offshore firms, the government on Tuesday backed down and is to table a legislative amendment in Parliament revoking the provision on Wednesday.

Then US State Department warned its citizens traveling to Europe in summer of possible terrorist attacks across the continent during the 2016 France Euro Football Championship staring in June. The issued travel advice informs US citizens that large events, tourist sites, restaurants, shopping centers and public transport could be targets.