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Google employees outside its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

AFP - Ryanair will cut 150 flights because of strike action across Europe on Friday, as Brussels urged it to respect workers' rights enshrined in EU law.

The Dublin-based carrier said that it would cancel six percent of flights amid the walk-outs in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. It had previously estimated 190 would be affected.

An asylum-seeker from Iraq with a criminal record who is accused of taking part in the killing of a German citizen in Chemnitz, an incident that sparked anti-immigrant protests and violence in the south-eastern German city, was one of several hundred who was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria.

Low-cost carrier Ryanair announced on Thursday a new route from Athens to London's Luton airport, which will be part of the company's winter 2018 schedule with three flights per week.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 3 (SeeNews) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested 100 million euro ($115.9 million) in the seven-year, 550 million euro senior unsecured bond issue of state-owned Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), the bank said on Friday.

Brussels, Athens and Piraeus are among the cities London insurance brokers could consider for European Union subsidiaries, with time running out to plan for a hard Brexit, a trade body said on Wednesday.

The Lloyd's of London commercial insurance market is setting up an EU subsidiary in Brussels to start writing business from January 2019.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair (RYA.I) warned cabin crew and pilots that some of them could lose their jobs if a series of strikes continue but said it was on course to hit its annual profit target despite the disruption.

THE COMMISSION FOR Aviation Regulation (CAR) has withdrawn the licence for a number of travel agents under the same company leaving dozens of Irish people stranded on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

It is understood that roughly 60 Irish customers due to leave Bourgas Airport have been left stranded as a result of the problems.

SOFIA: Bulgaria's parliament voted on Friday to bar the government from signing bilateral agreements with other European Union countries on readmitting migrants who arrived in Europe via the Black Sea state.

The national assembly took the step after Prime Minister Boyko Borissov asked parliamentary groups to adopt a joint decision on curbing migration.

Romania and Ireland support the project to strengthen the European design, focusing on a European Union that is closer to its citizens, Romania's Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu said at a meeting in Dublin on Wednesday with Helen McEntee, state minister for European affairs with Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.