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Developments are vindicating once again the claim that relations with Turkey have always been a function of necessity, rather than love on the part of Europe. Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy made it amply clear at the time what they think about "Turkey in Europe." 

Eurogroup released a statement following the meeting of European finance ministers on Monday, November 23:

Most people in the EU were owners of their dwellings last year, official statistics showed on Monday.

More than two-thirds (70.1%) of the population in the EU lived in owner-occupied dwellings, while 29.9% were renting their dwelling, according to data released by the EU statistical office, Eurostat.

In Bulgaria, the owners/tenants ratio was 84.3/15.7 percent.

Russia and Iran jointly oppose "external attempts" to bring regime change in Syria, a Kremlin official said on Nov. 23 in Tehran after President Vladimir Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

France continues the military operation against the ISIS with Rafale jet fighters taking off from Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to strike ISIS targets at Syria and Iraq.

British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged strong support to France in its bid to gain international backing for efforts to crush the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group in the wake of the Paris attacks and offered the use of its airbase on the Cyprus island.

The number of European Turks visiting Turkey as tourists has decreased from 2.7 million to 1.9 million so far this year over 2014, according to a survey by the Turkish European Foundation for Education and Scientific Studies (TAVAK). 

The average spending per European Turkish tourist has also decreased. 

France, announcing fresh moves against terrorist financing, said on Nov. 23 it would target prepaid debit cards which it said were used in the recent Paris attacks.
 
"We will regulate more strictly the use of prepaid cards which were used in the November 13 attacks, in order to make it harder to remain anonymous," Finance Minister Michel Sapin told a news conference.
 

British Prime Minister David met French President Francois Hollande today in Paris to discuss about the actions to take against ISIS following the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.

Mr. Cameron said that he had offered France the use of a British airbase in Cyprus for air strikes on ISIS targets.

French authorities published the photo of the third suicide bomber that blew himself up outside the Stade de Franch in Paris on the night of November 13 as one in a series of multiple attacks around the French capital. The man, known as Mahmoud al Mahmod, was identified by the BBC as a man who entered the Greek island of Leros on October 3 with another attacker, called Ahmad al Mohammad.