Czech Republic

The US State Department has approved the sale of F-35 fighter jets and related ammunition and equipment to the Czech Republic, the Pentagon announced yesterday, as quoted by Reuters.

The deal is worth 5.62 billion dollars.

Cegeka, a European information and communication technology (ICT) service provider based in Belgium, has launched its expansion in Greece by looking for new office space and hiring its first executives in Athens, it announced on Thursday.

The company is looking for highly skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Struggling to make sense of a sheaf of home-made documents, police at the Finance Ministry in March were told by a band of middle- and old-aged invaders to hand over all of the state's assets. They should be happy, the interlopers added, that they let them keep their uniforms.

In other news, Poland denies any involvement in last years sabotage of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines; the Ukrainian PoWs that Russia sent to Hungary are causing tensions; and a new amendment means former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis must sell off his media assets.

Bulgaria and 15 other European countries have offered help to Ukraine after the destruction at the Nova Kakhovka dam.

In 2022, 95.3 million people in the European Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, i.e. they lived in households with serious financial difficulties. This is according to data from the Eurostat statistical office. They remain almost unchanged from the previous year, when 95.4 million people lived at risk of poverty.

As qualifying for Euro 2024 resumes on Friday, an unintended consequence of the expansion to 24 teams is quickly becoming apparent, with six teams already given at least a 95% chance of making it to Germany with only two rounds of matches played.

BELGRADE - Serbian y-o-y inflation in March and April was higher than EU inflation but lower than in some EU member states, according to the latest issue of the MAT economic monthly, a publication of the Belgrade Faculty of Economics and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia.

Türkiye is the second cheapest holiday destination for German tourists after Albania, Recep Yavuz, from the Antalya City Council's Tourism Working Group, has said, citing a recent study by Germany's Federal Statistics Office (Destatis).

The study compares holiday destinations based on accommodation costs and daily expenditure.

One year after the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, almost a third (32%) of Bulgarians have a positive attitude towards Vladimir Putin.