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Mitsotakis calls for new ways to finance defense spending – “Yes” from France, Italy & southern countries – “No” from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark & Austria

Germany will play Ukraine and Greece in its final warmup games before hosting the European Championship.

The team will face Ukraine in Nuremberg on June 3, and four days later Greece, the 2004 European champion, in Mönchengladbach, the German soccer federation said on Tuesday.

Türkiye ranks first in bookings in the tourism market of the United Kingdom, Benelux and Scandinavian countries and Germany, a sector representative has announced.

According to Eurostat's latest publication, in the fourth quarter of 2023, the euro area witnessed a job vacancy rate of 2.7%, marking a decline from 2.9% in the preceding quarter and 3.1% in the same period of 2022. Notably, Bulgaria and Romania recorded the lowest job vacancy rates during this period, standing at 0.7% in both countries, BTA reported.

In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated. Once the property of an elderly British Jewish couple living in France, it was seized by Nazi collaborators during World War II and sold to Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's second-in-command.

The set of the five-time winner of the title 'Best DJ in the World' is part of the Sofia Solid series.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party in the Netherlands, has conceded defeat to become the country's prime minister, citing insurmountable differences among coalition partners, as reported by AFP.

The New York Times reported that Ukraine is set to receive F-16 fighters by summer 2024, but they may be too few to make a significant impact in the ongoing conflict. While 12 Ukrainian pilots are expected to be ready to fly the F-16s by then, Western countries have pledged to transfer only six out of the approximately 45 promised planes to Kyiv.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented flood protection proposals from Dutch experts for Greece's central Thessaly plain to local officials, while playing down concerns about the possible abandonment of cotton farming.

As the European parliamentary elections in June move ever closer, experts warn that pro-Russian players are flooding social media with false claims about the war in Ukraine to boost support for far-right and nationalist parties.