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Ljubljana – Slovenia ranks 9th among 165 countries in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals, according to a report complied by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the wings of the UN, and the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation and the Cambridge University Press. Last year, it ranked 12th.

Sixty-eight percent of European Union citizens intend to vote at next month's elections for European Parliament, with Greece, at 71 percent, being among four member states with the highest expected turnout, behind Italy (77pct), Denmark (76 pct) and Germany (73 pct), a new report has found.

In the case of Brexit without agreement, Bulgaria will lose EUR 111 million a year (EUR 16 per capita), and when the UK comes out of the EU with a deal, annual losses will amount to EUR 61 million (EUR 9 per capita). This is the data from a study by the German Bertelsmann Foundation. 

Balkan states bump along the bottom of the table in a new Sustainable Governance Index published by Germany's Bertelsmann Stiftung, which takes a close look at how 41 OECD and EU member states are governed.

Planning "would probably have disappeared completely" from Bulgarian policy-making "were it not for the EU pressure", a report on Bulgaria by the Bertelsmann Stiftung reads.