News archive of December 2021

The New Swedish Transgender-Minister: “We are the New Normal”

"We are the new normal." This was stated by the first transgender minister in Sweden Lina Axelsson Kilblom in 2018. She takes office a year after Belgium appointed the first deputy prime minister for transgender issues in Europe, Swedish television SVT reports.

Enerjisa inks $110 million green loan

 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending a new Turkish Lira-denominated long-term loan equivalent to $110 million to Enerjisa Enerji, one of Turkey's largest utilities, according to statements released on Nov. 30. 

Lenders rack up $7 billion in profits

The total net profit of 53 state-owned and private banks operating in Turkey in the first ten months of this year reached 66.1 billion Turkish Liras ($7 billion), the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) announced on Nov. 29.

The figure was around $6 billion in the same period of 2020.

Kalyon inks $812 mln deal for mega project

Kalyon Enerji, the developer of the largest solar facility in Turkey, on Nov. 30 signed a $812 million loan agreement with six Turkish banks, U.S. lender JPMorgan Chase & Co and U.K. Export Finance (UKEF).

Weather in Bulgaria: Windy and Cloudy with Max Temp Between 7°C and 12°C

Today it will be windy with moderate and temporarily strong wind from the west-northwest, which will weaken in the afternoon and will be oriented from the southwest. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by the weather forecaster on duty Georgi Tsekov from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

Minorities in Albania Urge More Accurate Headcount in 2022

After widespread criticism of its 2011 population census, authorities in Albania are facing calls to improve the way they count minorities when the headcount is repeated in 2022.

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