News archive of February 2019

A partnership with BSMEPA in organizing a Bulgarian-Macedonian ICT Business Forum was discussed by the Executive Director of the Agency Dr. Boyko Takov and the BASSCOM Executive Director Mrs. Maya Marinova and Mr. Georgi Brashnarov, a member of the Management Board.

A meeting took place in BSMEPA between Dr. Boyko Takov, Executive Director and HE Mr. Massato Watanabe, Ambassador of Japan to Bulgaria, Mr. Hidea Kobayashi, Coordinator of the JICA project for the Western Balkans and Ms. Aoi Yamagishi, First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Bulgaria.

A 50-year-old doctor at the Ippokratio General Hospital in Athens was arrested Friday after accepting a bribe in marked bills that he had demanded from a patient in order to perform an operation.

The patient, who has been diagnosed with cancer, said he had already paid two bribes to the same doctor, a gastroenterologist, for two other operations.

Greece's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced on Friday that next Wednesday, February 6, it will auction 13-week treasury bills maturing on May 10 and amounting to 625 million euros.

The settlement date will be February 8.

Only primary dealers will be allowed to participate, according to their operation regulations, the PDMA said.

And Ramush Haradinaj added that this measure was "not directed against the US, but against Serbia and Russia."

The US favors revoking these taxes, and this was the topic of a meeting in Pristina on Thursday between Kosovo officials and the US ambassador. According to Pristina media, the US diplomat left the meeting angry because Haradinaj refused to withdraw the taxes.

Nick Broomfield's "Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love," a film exploring the relationship between Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, will open this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
 

The retrial of former Bosnian Army soldiers Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic, accused of raping a Serb minor in Sarajevo in May 1993, opened at the Bosnian state court.

Amid a spike in flu cases, the National Organization for Medicine (EOF) said Friday there are enough vaccines available for everyone in Greece who hasn't had a jab yet to get one for this flu season.

EOF said that it has imported 2,100,000 vaccines so far this season.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila met on Friday with British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, context in which she underscored the special contribution of the Romanian community within the British society.

There are favourable conditions for skiing, the Mountain Rescue Service to the Bulgarian Red Cross told Focus News Agency. The weather is unfavourable for hiking in the high parts of Vitosha and the Balkan Mountain Range due to strong wind. At Botev Peak, the wind is stormy. The lift facilities are open, the ski slopes were prepared.