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Manufacturers are hoping for the artificial intelligence revolution to reach their factories, envisaging robots being used to repair complex machinery.     

The Energy and Water Regulatory Commission will consider Bulgargaz's report on the price of blue fuel in April. The proposal of the public supplier is in the amount of BGN 103 per megawatt hour. This is a price that is nearly 3% lower than the one approved for March, writes Nova TV.

However, the final decision will be made on April 1.

An all-day strike will shut down the Athens metro (lines 2 and 3) on Tuesday, March 28.

In a statement Friday, the employees' union said the strike is in protest over the lack of personnel, equipment and spare parts.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday what outgoing Czech President Milos Zeman had said two years ago was etched in the heart of every Serbian citizen, and noted that no European leader was as popular in Serbia as Zeman.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized in a joint article in the German publication "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" that they strive for quick and concrete progress in the EU enlargement process, DPA reported.

Changes come about in different ways. Gradually, over the long term. Or suddenly, with "events, dear boy, events," whose proportions we sometimes define as "historic." Or changes happen through the regular back and forth of real life, or by oscillations, sometimes in multi-decade cycles. Changes occur visibly or imperceptibly, sometimes going in opposite directions.

NATO wants to "monitor Russian military activity" and at the same time support the "increased presence of the Alliance in the region" and therefore deploys AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) surveillance aircraft from Germany to Romania. They should arrive in Bucharest next Tuesday, according to a NATO media release, quoted by DPA

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Fighting in Ukraine continues despite a cease-fire announced by Russia

A planned underwater energy pipeline linking Barcelona in Spain and Marseille in France could take up to seven years to build, Spain's energy minister has said.    

Russia's Vladimir Putin is now more open to possible peace talks to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said noting that he would seek grounds for such an initiative by the phone conversations planned with the leaders of the two warring sides.