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Bulgaria is among countries doing little or no effort to combat foreign bribery, a Transparency International report shows.

In its Progress Report 2015: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery [PDF], the organization says cross-border bribery "has enormous negative consequences for the populations of affected countries".

Bulgaria ranks as the third most perspective destination in the world for locating manufacturing facilities.

This is revealed by the latest annual report of Cushman & Wakefield entitled "Where in the world? Manufacturing index 2015", daily Sega informs.

Five Eurozone country parliaments will be voting on the approval of the new Greek rescue plan Tuesday and Wednesday. The parliaments of Spain and Estonia, along with the Austrian parliamentary committee will be convening today to decide on the bailout plan. The German and Dutch parliaments will vote Wednesday, with the Dutch assembly meeting in an extraordinary session.

The member countries of NATO from Central and Eastern Europe are planning to hold a summit in Bucharest on November 3 and 4.

The former Eastern bloc countries of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are expected to participate in the summit.

The European Commission has this month approved 23 multiannual national programmes under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF). The total funding for the agreed programmes is approximately €2.4 billion, for the period 2014-2020.

In the first quarter of 2015, Bulgaria had the third-lowest government debt to GDP ratio in the EU, at 29.6%, preceded by Estonia with 10.5% and Luxembourg with 21.6%, according to Eurostat data.

Another form of “Finlandization” has apparently plagued the Eurozone over the weekend and is now viewed as the main obstacle towards achieving a new bailout deal with crisis-stricken Greece, one that would avert the east Mediterranean country’s euro membership meltdown.

NATO would not do anything in Bulgaria unless the country specifically demands that. That was the statement made by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Tuesday in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio.

The decision for the dislocation of heavy weaponry to Bulgaria has been made by the US and not by NATO.

A pro-government Turkish newspaper has reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will code a simple computer game or program to encourage young software developers.

Daily Sabah reported on July 6 that Erdo?an ?prepared an important plan for Turkey to leap forward in the IT sector.? 

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg inaugurated a NATO Forces Integration Unit (NFIU) in Bucharest as part of his visit to Romania on Thursday.