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Economic and Trade Affairs of the Greek Embassy in Sofia published its annual report showing Greece as Bulgaria’s third largest foreign investor for 2014 with 2.49 billion euros in 2014.

The Syrian government's biggest international backers and opponents plunged into negotiations on Oct. 30 over a long-sought compromise to help end the four-and-a-half year civil war and potentially ease President Bashar al-Assad out of power. 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was "hopeful" of finding a path forward.

The possible building of a fence on Austria's border with Slovenia could cause a domino effect, according to the Vienna daily Die Presse.

The newspaper reports that Slovenia will soon decide whether to enact similar measures, if Vienna were to implement its announcements.

Europe's migrant crisis cannot be solved with the construction of fences or walls at borders, Germany has said after Austria announced plans to erect fences on its border with Slovenia to slow the influx. 

Austria will construct a fence along its border with Slovenia, Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has announced.

According to her, the country must take measures in case of deterioration of the situation.

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Serbia won't close its borders to migrants, the country's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.

Instead, Serbia will do its best to help migrants arriving at its borders, Vucic has said in an interview with German daily newspaper Handelsblatt, Serbian news agency Tanjug reported on Tuesday.

Countries along the Western Balkans migratory route have nominated national contact points, as had been agreed at the leaders' meeting in Brussels on Sunday.

At the meeting, the leaders of the eleven participating countries and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who had convened the summit, agreed to nominate contact points within 24 hours.

In the month of September, Bulgarians completed 450 922 trips abroad, which represented an increase of 10.8 % compared to the same month in 2014.

This is shown by the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) released on Tuesday.

An agreement was reached at the high-level meeting in Brussels on Sunday to temporary accommodate 100,000 refugees in the Balkans as Europe struggles to cope with the ongoing influx.