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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.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the future of Libya, and the stability of the whole Sahel region, is at stake as it faces the "terrifying threat" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

But he warned international powers not to "stoke the fires of conflict" in the country.

Bulgarian snowboarder Radoslav Yankov won the world cup in men's parallel giant slalom on Sunday.

The 26-year-old from the town of Chepelare reached the quarterfinals and finished sixth in the last race for the season in Winterberg on Sunday, earning 400 points and becoming unchallenged in the final standing.