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Here’s some good news on the “Greece-Euro” front!
Greek central bank engraver George Stamatopoulos on Thursday won a Europe-wide competition to design the logo for a commemorative two-euro coin to be unveiled in July.
According to DW, his design had been preselected by a jury alongside designs from Spain, Slovenia, Italy and Cyprus.

The most ancient of crimes ever committed (so far) has been cited by archaeologists in a Spanish cave. The crime scene is … 430,000 years old, featuring the smashed skull of a humanoid.

Researchers discovered the dozens of humanoid remains in a cave of northern Spain belonging to 28 different Neanderthals.

FIFA's spokesperson Walter De Gregorio deemed the unexpected arrests of the organization's officials to be a positive event.

The Mediterranean resort province of Antalya's tourism revenue may drop by $1.5 billion this year, as the number of tourists visiting the province, mainly from Russia, has decreased by more than 10 percent, according to the head of the Antalya Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ATSO). 

According to the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Wednesday, Bulgarians made more business trips and holiday travels abroad in April.

Bulgarians completed 369 000 trips abroad in April, which represented an increase of 14.2 % compared to the same month in 2014.

By Stathis Kousounis

Greece?s economic and political climate has led to an unexpected decline in tourism bookings from Germany by 1.2 percent year-on-year in the first four months of 2015, according to a survey by Gfk.

The three teams of students and professors with the Faculty of Engineering of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) have ranked fifth, the best result of Romania in the history of participations in the Robotics European Championship - EUROBOT Robomovies 2015, which took place over May 21 - 24 in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland), according to a release sent AGERPRES on Tuesday.

The European Commission approved on Tuesday the Rural Development Programme of Bulgaria, which is worth nearly EUR 2.4 B.

The programme is aimed at improving the competitiveness of the EU farming sector and caring for the countryside and climate in the period until 2020.

Online retail giant Amazon said on May 26 it has started declaring sales in four European countries which would now be subject to local taxes, a move that could affect other multinationals under EU investigation for possible tax avoidance.   

By Maria Petrakis

Making babies is a business as well as a way of life for father-of-eight Kostas Pantos.