News archive of September 2020

„I am very happy with the results of the elections and the change in Montenegro. I am especially glad that the people who are coming look at the bigger picture. I think that they will use the right ways to solve problems in the country and that Montenegro will return to the right path, the one on which it should be", said patriarch Irinej for portal Nova.rs.

The Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday that three people, Macedonian nationals from the north-eastern town of Kumanovo, were arrested in an anti-terrorist operation carried out by the police the previous day in cooperation with the National Security Agency and the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime.

Bulgaria enters the top five of the EU countries with the lowest unemployment in July, according to Eurostat data. We share the fifth place with Germany, where, as in our country, unemployment is 4.4%. But while in Germany unemployment has been rising steadily in recent months, in Bulgaria it has been declining in May and June, and in July it remains at the level of the previous month.

Greek authorities announced 207 new cases of coronavirus and five fatalities in the past 24 hours Tuesday.

Twenty of the 207 cases involved tourists tested upon arrival.

Greece's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases is now 10,524, with 271 dead.

Clotilde Armand, a Romanian MEP from the Renew Europe centrist bloc who is also a French citizen and is running for mayor in Bucharest's Sector 1 in the local elections in September, has filed a complaint against the sector's mayor, Daniel Tudorache, who she accuses of using the local police to harass her in 2017.

Arrivals, both domestic and international, at most Greek airports dropped between 55% and 60% in August, according to preliminary data seen by Kathimerini.

Greece has mandated six banks for the reopening of a 10-year bond in the near future, subject to market conditions, authorities said in a bourse filing on Tuesday.

Hellenic Republic has mandated Barclays, Citi, IMI-Intesa Sanpaolo, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and Société Générale as Joint lead managers for the re-opening. [Reuters]

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban expressed, on Tuesday, his displeasure with the way in which a series of auction procedures took place, such as that for the tablets for pupils.

The new parliamentary season starts as of September 2 in a renovated building, the former Communist Party house. The sittings will take place in the renovated Saint Sofia hall. The repairs cost 18 million BGN so far, but further finishing works are scheduled.

Turkey's banking sector registered a net profit of 39 billion Turkish liras ($5.6 billion) as of the end of July, the country's banking watchdog said on Sept. 1. 

Total assets of the sector hit 5.6 trillion Turkish liras ($809 billion), up 34.7% from the same period last year, a report by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) said.