Slovakia

Bulgaria is one of the four countries included in the Offshoring Destination of the Year category of the shortlist for the 2015 annual awards of the National Outsourcing Association (NOA).

Bulgaria's rivals in the category are Slovakia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka.

The European Commission has adopted a EUR 222M six-year programme aimed at strengthening cooperation and supporting projects in the Danube region.

ABTA, the UK’s largest travel association, will hold its annual travel convention this year in Greece, and specifically at the five-star luxury resort of in Costa Navarino, described by the trade group as a “a sustainable resort” in southeastern Peloponnese.

Transparency International has criticized the poor criminal liability of legal entities in Turkey, in addition to political interference in foreign bribery investigations, in a report titled "Exporting Corruption" that was revealed Aug. 20. 

Slovakia has said that it will only accept Christian refugees once it starts taking in its quota of 200 migrants from the Middle East under a relocation programme recently adopted by the EU.

According to Slovakia's Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Metik the government's approach wasn't down to discrimination, but rather practical concerns around integration, CNN reported.

Slovakia has announced it will only accept Syrian refugees who are Christians, when a new EU migrant relocation scheme is implemented, BBC reported.

According to the British broadcaster, "the country is due to receive 200 people from camps in Turkey, Italy and Greece under the EU plan to resettle 40,000 new arrivals."

Bulgaria is among countries doing little or no effort to combat foreign bribery, a Transparency International report shows.

In its Progress Report 2015: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery [PDF], the organization says cross-border bribery "has enormous negative consequences for the populations of affected countries".

Star soloists and concert-goers alike hail the atmosphere at the BBC Promenade Concerts, with their quirks, traditions and sense of occasion The London-based Proms are celebrating their 120th year this summer, and the world?s biggest classical music festival continues to draw in crowds by mixing top performers with accessible ticket prices.

Five Eurozone country parliaments will be voting on the approval of the new Greek rescue plan Tuesday and Wednesday. The parliaments of Spain and Estonia, along with the Austrian parliamentary committee will be convening today to decide on the bailout plan. The German and Dutch parliaments will vote Wednesday, with the Dutch assembly meeting in an extraordinary session.

The member countries of NATO from Central and Eastern Europe are planning to hold a summit in Bucharest on November 3 and 4.

The former Eastern bloc countries of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are expected to participate in the summit.