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The Pussycat Dolls are reforming for a reunion tour kicking off in Dublin next year, the American girl band said on Nov. 28.

The first priority for the new European Commission should be managing migration, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday at an event on youth participation in European politics.

Following the popularity of last year's show, the second Irish Stand Up Comedy is coming to Athens in 27-28 November 2019. Two of Ireland's biggest-named, London-based comedians Rory O'Hanlon and Peter Flanagan will be performing and Niamh Marron will return to MC and present some of her new material.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is shocked by the news of 39 bodies found in a truck in Essex east of London, Reuters reported.

Schools, cultural centres, hotels, restaurants and children's entertainment venues will host polling stations for Romanian nationals abroad voting in the November presidential election, according to a list published by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP). AEP has approved 835 polling stations abroad in all, with the most being in Spain - 143.

If the European Union does not invest in social and economic unity during the new term of office of the European institutions, internal division will continue threatening the EU principles and pillars, Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev said at the 15th summit of the heads of state of the Arraiolos Group in Athens.

The European Union and Ireland said on Oct. 3 that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals were unlikely to yield a deal, with Dublin bluntly warning that Britain was heading towards a no-deal exit unless it made more concessions.   

Banks which are seeking for a new European financial centre after Brexit have so far turned their preferences to Frankfurt, according to a study by German bank Helaba.

By the end of August, 31 banks had chosen to establish or expand their operations in the western German city to secure their presence in the EU after London leave the bloc.

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive Officer of of low-cost Ryanair Airlines, announced plans to cut 500-700 jobs after shareholders approved a bonus scheme that could bring him about 100 million euro ($ 111 million) for the next five years, Reuters reported.

Bulgaria wants its current EU commissioner, Maria Gabriel, to receive the agriculture department of the new European Commission, Politico reported. Currently, Gabriel is responsible for the Digital Economy and Digital Society.

"We are interested in the agricultural portfolio," a Bulgarian diplomat told the newspaper.