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Polish runner Andrzej Radzikowski won the 245.3km historic Spartathlon race on Saturday for the first time, clocking 23 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds.

Radzikowski, 35, was 18th last year and two years ago finished third.

Finishing second was Italy's 39-year-old Marco Bonfiglio in 23:35.14 while 42-year-old Radek Brunner of the Czech Republic was third in 24:06.39.

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos lost games they should not have lost in the Europa League on Thursday, but PAOK saved some face for Greece on the night with a precious away win in the Czech Republic.

Cypriot champion APOEL added another scalp to its collection of the last seven years in Europe, beating Greek champion Olympiakos 1-0 in Piraeus to move up to six points.

Bulgaria compares to most other EU member states which have not accepted a big enough share of the 160 000 migrants from Italy and Greece, EU data released on Wednesday shows.

Bulgaria has so far taken in only six people, all from Greece, the same figure that was reported by the State Agency for Refugees early in August.

Representatives of EU member states that are not part of the Schengen borderless area are set to meet in Polish capital Warsaw on Monday, local media report, citing the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

The meeting will bring together officials from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania with several countries that are part of the area.

The EU must listen more to its Eastern European members and find a compromise with them for solving the refugee crisis. The Vishegrad four have made proposals at the summit in Bratislava which must be discussed, stated European Parliament President Martin Schulz at a press conference in Berlin.

It took just two rounds of games in the Greek Super League for the first managerial head to roll, as Atromitos announced on Monday the dismissal of coach Traianos Dellas.

Hacktivist group ‘Fancy Bear’ has released a second batch of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s medical data on 25 athletes from the United States, Germany, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, Romania and Russia.

Industrial production in the EU has declined by 1% on a monthly basis in July and this is the first decrease since November, 2014.

According to Eurostat, the worst decline was registered in Slovakia (-15.9%) and the Czech Republic (-9.7%).

In Bulgaria, industrial production declined by 1.6% in July, compared to June, thus renewing the negative trend in the industrial sector.

A new study has revealed that Taiwan is the best country in the world for expats, while Kuwait is the worst.
The results come from a report by the online expat community InterNations, which looks at everything from quality of life and personal finance, to job satisfaction and ease of settling indices.

The Czech Republic has thrown its support behind Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area, its Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said, according to the press office of his Bulgarian counterpart Rosen Plevneliev.

The Bulgarian head of state is on a two-day visit to Prague, having met with Czech counterpart Milos Zeman on Monday.