Italy

Victoria Secret’s angel Josephine Skriver has done a sexy photo-shoot for Italy’s edition of ‘Marie Claire’ magazine and the outcome was, as expected, impressive. The beautiful model ‘flirted’ with the camera showing off  her stunning body. Josephine debuted on the catwalk in 2011 in the New York Fashion Week.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden have proposed to the European Commission to extend temporary controls at the internal borders of the Schengen Area to tackle migration flows more efficiently, Die Welt reported on Saturday.

BELGRADE - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi congratulated Serbia's caretaker Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on the victory of his Progressive Party (SNS) in April 24 parliamentary election, saying that the result the SNS had achieved highlighted the importance of the strategic choice to continue on the path of structural reforms.
    

An operation by the Bulgarian authorities that led to the dismantling of an illegal workshop for counterfeiting of 100 euro banknotes has drawn praise from Europol.

Media outlets in Bulgaria are partly free along with most countries in Southern and Southeast Europe, the 2016 Freedom of the Press report shows.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has tabled a new option to revive the South Stream pipeline, local media report.

Alternative routes are being studied for South Stream and Nord Stream II which would possibly use private funding, instead of counting on EU support, Vesti Finance quotes Andrey Konoplyanik, adviser to the head of Gazprom Export, as saying.

The Greek National Tourism Organization has decided to implement five programs to promote the country as a holiday destination via Google, Facebook, TripAdvisor and Expedia, adding up to over 2 million euros.

Austria will be able to declare a state of emergency, if migrant arrivals suddenly rise, and reject most asylum-seekers directly at the border under a new bill adopted on Wednesday, newswires reported.

The hotly-disputed legislation is "one of Europe's toughest asylum laws", according to AFP.

Turkish historian ?lber Ortayl? has paid a visit to the excavation area in the southern province of Hatay's ?plik Pazar? district where an ancient mosaic reading "be cheerful, live your life" was discovered last week during the construction of a cable railway project. 

The employment rate of Bulgarians aged 20 to 64 increased by 2 % in 2015 compared to the previous year.

This is revealed by the latest figures of Eurostat released on Tuesday.

In 2014, the employment rate in Bulgaria stood at 65.1 %, while last year it reached 67.1 %.

As in previous years, employment rate continued to be higher among men (70.4 %) than women (63.8 %).