Moldova

Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip heads to Brussels on Thursday to chair the annual European Union-Moldova Association Council, a forum for Moldovan cabinet members and EU representatives to discuss the country's progress in implementing reforms.

Turkey beat Moldova 3-1 in an international friendly on March 27 in Eskişehir thanks to goals from young guns Emre Mor, Cengiz Ünder and Ahmet Çalık.

All three players scored their first international goals for Turkey at a stadium that hosted an international game for the first time.

The voting process amidst the Bulgarian community in Moldova is going on normally, announced from BNR.

The German bank that loaned USD 300M to Donald Trump played a prominent role in a money laundering scandal run by Russian criminals with ties to the Kremlin, according to the Guardian.

Deutsche Bank is one of dozens of western financial institutions that processed at least USD 20BN - and possibly more - in money of "criminal origin" from Russia.

Caretaker Government will adopt at its regular meeting today  the opening of consulates of Bulgaria in Taraklia, Moldova; in Zaporozhye - Ukraine and Katowice - Poland, according to BNR.

Ministers will approve the national position for the summit of the EU in Rome on March 25.

British banks were also a part of the large-scale Russian operation for money laundering through Moldova and Latvia in the period 2010 - 2014, showed data from an international investigation, cited by The Guardian.

Media reports about the massive money-laundering scheme which siphoned $20.8 billion (19.2 billion euros) from 19 Russian banks have named Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina among the countries where suspicious financial transactions took place.

A former member of the Moldovan parliament has been arrested and accused of treason and espionage for Russia, amid heightened concerns over Moscow's influence in the country.

Significant reductions of over 10 percent were recorded in the incarceration rate in Greece (-18.8 percent), Croatia (-10 percent) and Denmark (-11 percent) between 2014 and 2015, according to the Council of Europe's annual penal statistics (SPACE), published on Tuesday.

Bulgarians are celebrating on Tuesday Baba Marta (Grandma March) holiday, which is observed each year on March 1.

On this day, people greet each other with "Happy Baba Marta" and exchange adornments called "martenitsi" (named after the month of March).