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Bulgarian authorities are pushing hard for new negotiations on the South Stream pipeline project, a Russian Deputy Energy Minister has said.

The intense red colour of the train wagons weaving through countless tunnels disappearing in the snowy Alps is a scene right out of a fantasy train ride in a Walt Disney film! The ‘Bernina Express’ has 55 tunnels and crosses 196 bridges in the stunning Alps mountain! The peak of the train ride route is the Ospizio Bernina at 2 thousand meters above sea water.

As Western Balkan states act together to stop the flow of refugees on the old land route through the Balkans, Albania is holding negotiations with neighbouring Greece and Italy about a possible influx across its own borders.

Immigrants from outside the European Union pay enough social contributions to fund the pensions of 600,000 retired Italians, research has revealed amid controversy over the cost of managing a wave of new arrivals.
 

Türk Telekom has built a high-capacity submarine data network at the Aegean resort town of Marmaris as a part of a $700-million project.

The SEA-ME-WE-5 project will connect 17 countries, including Turkey, to a system that stretches for more than 20,000 kilometers between Asia and Europe, according to company representatives. 

The flow of migrants and refugees to the Greek islands from Turkey continues despite efforts by NATO to discourage people smugglers by increasing naval deployment in the Aegean Sea, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said.

Like the previous year, a bell-ringing ceremony was held at Turkey's main stock exchange Borsa Istanbul on March 8 in cooperation with U.N. Global Compact, U.N.

Automotive exports from Turkey increased by 17 percent in February, the country's Automotive Industry Exporters' Union said on March 7, reaching the highest value since 2008.

Tofa?, a joint venture of Turkey's Koç Holding and Italy's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), is set to sell the Fiat Aegea sedan to the Americas.  

The Fiat Aegea, which is manufactured in the Tofa? facility in the northwestern province of Bursa, will be exported to the Mexican market in the initial stage under the name of "Dodge Neon." 

Greece ranked second following Spain in the list of destinations to visit alone this spring, according to travel dating website and app tourbar.com.

14.7% of UK members said that they were most likely to visit Spain alone this spring with the idea of meeting a companion to join them for the journey, as Travel Daily Media reports.