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Former European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the BBC that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made "completely unrealistic promises" to voters that it cannot now fulfil. The high-ranking EU officla who left his post in October says taht Greek demands were "completely unacceptable to other countries."

The European Union abolished milk quotas on Tuesday after they had been in existence for more than 30 years, a decision which caused division among member states.

This step is expected to expand opportunities for some dairy farmers, while it will most probably pose threat to the livelihood of others, EurActiv reports.

Bulgaria marked one of biggest year-on-year falls in unemployment rate in the EU in February 2015, official statistics showed on Tuesday.

The EU-28 unemployment rate was 9.8% in February, down from 9.9% in the prior month and from 10.5% in February 2014.

Bulgaria, which has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the EU, has objected to the introduction of a 26% withholding tax on all transactions originating from sources in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Ireland by Greece.

Bulgaria remained the EU Member State with the lowest hourly labor costs in 2014, according to Eurostat data.

Bulgaria's hourly labor costs increased by 2.7% to EUR 3.8 per hour in 2014, against an annual increase of 1.1% registered in the euro area and an annual increase of 1.4% recorded in the EU-28.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said during a visit to Helsinki that there is flexibility as to which reforms the Greek government will opt to implement, however, the overall framework must “add up.”

Koza Gold's subsidiary Koza LTD and Ireland-based IMC Exploration Limited have signed a deal to explore gold and silver in four fields in Ireland.

BELGRADE - The film Monument to Michael Jackson (Spomenik Majklu Dzeksonu), written and directed by Darko Lungulov, will be screened at four festivals - in Ireland, Prague, Switzerland and the United States - by the end of March.

The proportion of elderly people in Turkey increased to 8 percent of the overall population in 2014, and is expected to surpass 10 percent by 2023, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) on March 18.

Violence erupted in Frankfurt on Wednesday as anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with the police before the official opening of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Several police cars were set on fire and their windows smashed after demonstrators threw stones at police, DW reports.