News archive of October 2018

Wolfgang Schaeuble has fended off criticism of being too harsh on Greece as finance minister of Germany.

The number of Syrians going back from Turkey to Syria's northwestern province of Idlib and surrounding areas has so far reached 60,000, Demirören News Agency reported on Oct. 30.

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.2% in October 2018, up from 2.1% in September 2018, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

As the Serbian president said on Wednesday in Belgrade, Lavrov and Bolton did, for the first time, speak about Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet, KiM).

"Whatever agreements someone may be making, Serbia must agree too," Vucic said.

He added that he received a message from Lavrov.

As the prosecutor at the Hague-based Specialist Chambers visited Kosovo for the first time, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said there is a sense of scepticism about the new court that will try suspects for wartime crimes.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday in Suceava that the Greater Union should not be regarded as a " deserved inheritance or a well-deserved gift of history ," showing that Romanians should contribute to the project of an advancing Romania.

''Winter'' action begins from tomorrow despite the sunny weather. It is expected to announce the measures and control of the roadsahead in the winter months, reported bTV. 

There will be mass control checks around the country.

Vucic added that he was "seeking compromise the whole time."

The president was asked by reporters - after touring the newly built X-knife Center at the Clinical-Hospital Center (KBC) in Belgrade - why he never presented his plan and the details that he had indicated, as he said, to the leaders in Brussels and to the Pristina side.

Unknown individuals vandalized an area inside the capital's Panteion University that is used by the student union affiliated with the Communist Party (KKE) and attacked students with clubs on Monday afternoon. Assailants also attacked KKE students at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Greek retail sales by volume rose 3.2 percent in August compared to the same month last year after a downwardly revised 2.3 percent increase in July, statistics service ELSTAT said on Wednesday.

Retail sales were led higher by supermarkets, furniture and home appliances, the data showed.