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The The Turkish frigate TCG Turgut Reis reached the port of Piraeus on Saturday.

The frigate belongs to the multinational force SNMG2, along with eight more warships from the US, Canada, Germany, Spain and Italy, while from the Greek side the participant frigate is named “Koundouriotis”. All ships are expected to depart for their next stop later on Sunday.

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE), through the Romanian Embassy in Rome has taken action in relation to an incident on Sunday morning that involved five cars registered in Romania being burned down in the streets in Italy's capital city.

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The second Super G race of the Alpine Skiing World Cup taking place in Bansko, Bulgaria, has been called off due to the thick fog.

This comes after Friday's weather conditions also imposed a reschedule, with the Friday event now set for Monday.

The Super Giant Slalom began at 11:15 EET (09:15 GMT), but came to a halt as fog fell and limited visibility.

Last week, the news fell like a bombshell. Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz declared at the Turkish parliament that Turkey?s new defense missile system, to be purchased most probably from China, would not be integrated with NATO?s system. This kicked off a hot discussion on whether Turkey is changing its strategic affiliation and might ultimately withdraw from NATO.

In January 2015, Bulgarians completed more than 295 000 travels abroad, which represents an increase of 8.3 % compared to the same month of 2014.

This became clear from the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Friday.

The European Commission on Wednesday said it plans to introduce strict economic monitoring on Croatia, alarmed by the imbalanced state of the economy.

Stressing that the situation calls for "decisive political action and special monitoring", the Commission said a subsequent decision on activating Excessive Imbalance Procedures, known as EIP, will be made known in May.

Liver pate with truffles, focaccia with mozzarella and truffles, or truffles with beef tenderloin are just some of the dishes served as a first in an Italian restaurant in the city of Miercurea Ciuc - Harghita County, and which exquisitely highlight the precious fungus also referred to as 'the diamond of the kitchen', given the difficulty to find it.

Bulgaria is 19th in the EU by agricultural output with a score of EUR 3.8 B, according to Eurostat data, as cited by news portal Romania Insider.

Romania's total agricultural production reached EUR 15.48 B in 2014, placing the country eight in the EU.

The European Commission made three demands towards Bulgaria in terms of complying with the legislative norms of the Union Thursday.

The representative organ has requested from the Bulgarian government that an explanation is provided in three sections: driving licences, railway transportation safety and field crops disease management.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Feb. 26 that any attempt to expand territory held by separatists in Ukraine would be "unacceptable" and told Russia to withdraw 1,000 items of military equipment from its neighbour's territory.