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According to MEPs, the recognition of Kosovo by all member states of the EU will be helpful in normalising the relations between Pristina and Belgrade and in bringing more stability to the region.

Turkish jazz artists Ay?egül and Nezih Ye?ilnil will perform two concerts in Spain this month. 

The concerts, organized by Escola de Musica, one of the respected music schools in Spain, will take place on Feb. 11 at the Sunset Jazz Club in Girona and on Feb. 12 at the Nova Jazz Cava in Barcelona. 

The Bulgarian men's national football team dropped three positions in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World ranking released on Thursday.

At present, Bulgaria occupies 75th position with 494 points, being between the teams of South Africa and Zambia.

There is no change to the first eighteen positions in the ranking as only 43 matches have been played since the start of the year.

"Europe has forgotten that history is fundamentally tragic," said Manuel Valls, the French prime minister. "If Europe can't protect its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that could be thrown into doubt. It could disappear - not Europe itself, not our values, but the European project, the concept we have of Europe, that the founding fathers had of Europe."

Fortification of security forces both in numbers and with building of new military installations appeared to have been two key and concrete items in a "master plan" drafted by the Turkish government in a bid to fight "terrorism," while urban transformation is an essential part of measures aiming to restore economic and social life in eastern and southeastern Turkey.

The latest figures of Eurostat released on Tuesday show that Bulgaria's unemployment rate was below the EU average in the last month of 2015.

In December last year, Bulgaria registered an unemployment rate of 8.8 %, with the EU average being 9 %.

Bulgaria's unemployment rate retained its level from November 2015, decreasing by 1.4 % compared to the same month in 2014.

The unemployment rate in the euro zone and EU fell in December for the 15th month running to its lowest level in a little more than four years, according to data published by European statistics agency Eurostat.

In December 2015, unemployment rate in euro zone fell to 10.4%, while unemployment rate in EU fell to 9%.

Diyarbak?r's historical Sur district will be rebuilt to erase the scars of weeks-long clashes between security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said, citing Spain's reconstruction of historic Toledo as an example. 

Yeditepe University's department of gastronomy and culinary arts has become an official partner of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs "Food Culture and Development" program.

For the first time in history, Bulgaria hosts a tournament from the ATP World Tour.

The first edition of Garanti Koza Sofia Open began on Monday and will last until Sunday, with the Arena Armeec hall being the venue for the matches.

The draw took place on Saturday, qualifications followed on Saturday and Sunday and the matches from the first round began on Monday.