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Most EU countries fail to meet the bloc's air quality standards and more than 1,000 Europeans die prematurely each day, ten times more than in road accidents, a watchdog said Tuesday.

OZY - When Bulgarian Tatyana Mitkova co-founded her business — ClaimCompass, which helps dissatisfied airline passengers get compensation — she found exactly what you'd expect from the startup sector: Most of the industry's other founders and investors were male.

The European Parliament's Budgets Committee on August 29 approved the European Union's Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support reconstruction in Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Bulgaria following natural disasters in 2017.

The College of Veterinarians of Romania (CMVR) says in a release on Wednesday that no country around the world has specialists in African swine fever and no veterinarian is specialist in any certain disease, either.

Bulgaria and Romania had the lowest prices for consumer goods and services in the European Union in 2017.

The prices were 52% below the EU average in Romania and 56% lower than the EU average in Bulgaria. However, the prices of goods and services in Romania increased compared to 2000, when they stood at only 35% of the EU average, Eurostat data shows.

Worldwide, each person 15 years and older consumes 13.5 grams of pure alcohol per day, according to the World Health Organization. Considering that nearly half of the world doesn't drink at all, that leaves the other half drinking up their share.

44 children who were there - aged from 12 to 23 - have been sent home.

"We have given an order to dissolve the camp because of the possibility of child abuse, and disturbing the public," Stefanovic said.

The first "youth-patriotic" children's camp, organized by "Serbian and Russian veterans and patriotic groups" had been opened on Mt. Zlatibor.

This has been reported by the newspaper Danas, which cited unnamed diplomatic sources in Berlin.

After a lengthy silence, the United States have stated their position on the idea.

Bulgaria is fifth in the EU by GDP growth in the second quarter, after increase of 3.4% on annual basis, according to the initial data of the European Statistical Office Eurostat. For comparison, the GDP grew by 3.6% in the first quarter.