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Sweden's defender Andreas Granqvist (L) celebrates after scoring a penalty during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group F football match between Sweden and South Korea at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod on June 18, 2018. AFP PHOTO / Martin BERNETTI

Bulgaria will seek to join both the eurozone's waiting room and the bloc's banking union within a year, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said on Tuesday (12 June).

The Bulgarian society remains conflicted about the introduction of the euro. 51% of Bulgarians approve it as the currency of their country. This shows the Eurobarometer survey conducted by TNS, Investor.bg reported. The poll was conducted between 11 and 12 April 2018 in the seven EU Member States that have not yet joined the euro area.

Qualco's Greek subsidiary Qquant is according to sources undertaking the management of the bad-loan portfolio of 5.2 billion euros that National Bank of Greece is selling to the consortium of Sweden's Intrum and US firm CarVal.

Athens's big rock music festival returns at the Terra Vibe park north of the capital, starting on July 6 with an indie rock feast headed by Arctic Monkeys in their first-ever appearance in Greece, along with Alt-J, former Last Shadow Puppets co-frontman Miles Kane (both also from the UK), Get Well Soon, a German act headed by Konstantin Gropper, who has been likened to Nick Cave and Iggy Pop, a

Bulgarian Mirela Demireva finished second in the discipline of high jump of the race from the Diamond Athletics League in Stockholm (Sweden), reports Gong.bg.
 
Olympic vice-champion of the Rio 2016 Demireva finished at 200 centimeters, with her third attempt, and for the first time in her career she overcame the master border.
 

Ivet Lalova won 200 meters of the Diamond Athletics League tournament in Stockholm (Sweden).
 
The Bulgarian finished in 22.63 seconds, improving with one hundredth of хер strongest result for the season.
 
The 34-year-old Bulgarian Sprinter had 22.64 seconds to the Diamond League in Rome, where she finished second.
 

This year's Technopolis Jazz Festival at the City of Athens's cultural complex in the downtown Gazi district features 21 bands, including acts from around Greece, as well as Belgium, the UK, Portugal, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, among others. Doors open daily at 5 p.m. and close at midnight, and admission is free of charge.

About one third of the population in Bulgaria - 33% - or almost every third Bulgarian, had an overdue mortgage, rent or other financial items in 2017, such as utility bills or rentals, which are usually paid as monthly installments . This shows data from Eurostat's analysis of late payments to Europeans.
 

Holders of Japanese passports can travel to most countries in the world without the need for a visa. This shows the results of the latest Henley Passport Index.