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ApArt in central Athens is hosting an exhibition-sale of luxury vintage costume jewelry running from Friday, November 11, to Sunday, November 13. Going on display are pieces created for leading French fashion houses Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Lanvin, Scherrer and Spain's Loewe.

Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal have modified state guarantees on deferred tax assets created by banks following discussions with European Union regulators concerned that these may give the lenders an unfair advantage, the bloc's state aid chief said on Tuesday.

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Nov. 7 that the European Union must modernize its military defense and security to match NATO's drive to beef up its own security forces in the wake of a major Russian build-up. 

Some 106 312 Bulgarian nationals living out of the country have cast ballots in the presidential elections, the Foreign Ministry has said.

Data as of 17:00 Bulgarian time (EET) shows 31 888 people voted in Turkey, 17 864 took part in the UK, and 10 441 in Spain.

Spain's leader Mariano Rajoy, who kicks off a second term after months of political paralysis, formed a new cabinet on Nov. 3 that looks set to maintain controversial economic reforms and cement EU ties.

BELGRADE - Two million visitors made 6 mln overnight stays in the first nine months of 2016 - 13 pct more than last year, said Dragana Sabic, secretary of the Association for Tourism at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS), opening the 13th forum of Serbian hoteliers Tuesday.

Greece ranked fourth, behind Spain, Turkey and Germany, among the destinations that Thomas Cook tour operator customers in Germany visited this summer, the company has announced.

German arrivals in Greece increased 10.6 percent year-on-year in the period from January to August 2016 to exceed 2 million.

The unemployment rate in the 28 member-states of the EU stabilised in September at its lowest level in seven and a half years - 8.5%, while, at the same time, unemployment in Bulgaria marked a decrease to 7.5%, reaching its lowest level since 2009, showed Eurostat data.

Greece showed the highest rate of unemployment in the eurozone with 23.2 percent in September, the European Union's statistical authority Eurostat reported on Thursday.

Like Turkey, Greece has seen its tourism takings decline this year, in contrast to Cyprus, Spain and Bulgaria, which have reported growth in tourism revenues, according to the latest official data that Kathimerini has compiled. The year is likely to end with a loss of half a billion euros for the local tourism industry and the economy in general.