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The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced on Thursday that the basis for an agreement for a peaceful Iranian nuclear programme and a lifting of sanctions against Tehran has been reached.

"We have reached solutions on key parameters of a joint comprehensive plan of action," Mogherini said after eight days of talks in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Serbian "cyber criminal" imprisoned, ordered to pay millions

A Serbian citizen has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of USD 17 million by a U.S. court.

Milos Vujanic was accused of "cyber crime" and arrested in France in 2012. In April of last year he was extradited to Texas.

Greek Cyprus has made it a crime to deny the Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenian Turks a century ago, a move likely to rile its old rival Turkey as peace talks on the ethnically-split island remain stalled.

The UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be opened with a football match between the teams of Bulgaria and Croatia.

This was determined by the draw, which took place on Thursday in the Bulgarian town of Pomorie, the website of UEFA reports.

The opening game of the tournament, which will be held in Bulgaria between May 6 and 22, will take place in Stara Zagora on May 6.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday that, although the new Greek government has made progress in its reform plan, more needs to be done.

“There is progress with the last list … Is there a need for more progress? Yes – in the quantification of the measures,” Sapin told reporters in Paris.

The new Greek government has made progress defining its reform proposals but more needs to be done, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday.

"There is progress with the last list ... Is there a need for more progress? Yes - in the quantification of the measures," he told reporters in Paris.

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BELGRADE - Alain Richard, special representative for economic diplomacy in the Balkans of France's foreign ministry, told Serbia's Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic on Wednesday that French companies were interested in buying certain Serbian enterprises from various fields.

Parliament?s General Assembly accepted in the early hours of April 1 an international agreement between Turkey and Japan for the construction of Turkey?s second planned nuclear plant.
 
With the approval, the legal framework for the construction of the plant has been laid. 

Germany and France view Greece?s overtures toward Russia as a sideshow and won?t be drawn into a debate on the matter, three government officials said.

Croatia may be a very Catholic country by secular European standards, but that has not stopped a satirical movie about the Church called "Svecenikova djeca" ("Priest's Children"), from being a hit with movie audiences.

Now it is going to shown to French audiences, too, supported by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.