News archive of July 2020

The Austrian authorities banned passenger flights from Bulgaria and 9 other countries from July 15 to 31 due to the spread of COVID-19, TASS and BTA reported. The decision was published tonight by a decree of the Austrian Ministry of Social Welfare, Health and Consumer Protection.

The document sets down a timeline of the full handover, which will take several years, as the centre currently hosts one of the Trieste University schools.

It was signed by representatives of Italian authorities at various levels, the university's chancellor and the heads of both minority organisations, the SSO and KGZS.

Today it will be mostly sunny, with cumulus clouds in the afternoon, and precipitation is unlikely. A light to moderate east-northeast wind will blow. It will be cool in the morning and the maximum temperatures in the afternoon will be between 24 ° and 29 °, according to the NIMH forecast.

159 are newly infected with COVID-19 in Bulgaria, which is 82 more than yesterday. This is shown by the data of the Unified Information Portal. A total of 3341 PCR tests were performed during the last 24 hours. At present, a total of 7411 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria, of which 3618 are active. There were 3517 people cured.

Boric said she and her partners are concerned about "the strengthening of the extreme right, even though it will not be part of the new executive power".

"A struggle to 'switch off the darkness' that is spreading in Croatia remains," she said.

The fight for women's rights in parliament

Former chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told BIRN that while probing alleged organ-trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, the Serbian authorities gathered evidence about President Hashim Thaci's alleged role in wartime crimes, which was then passed to Hague investigators.

In most EU countries, sex education is mandatory in schools. But both the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church have positioned themselves against teaching sex education in Romania.

Bulgaria and Croatia still have work to stabilize their economies and improve their institutions before joining the euro, European Central Bank board member Fabio Panetta said on July 13.

The Brazilian Press Association has said it will file a lawsuit in Brazil's Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro over possibly exposing members of the media to Covid-19, according to a statement from the association on Tuesday.

Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Añez has become the third Latin American leader to test positive for the coronavirus, as several members of her cabinet also confirmed infections.