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Romania is not blocking the Brexit negotiations, but the country is naturally interested in defending the principle of the free movement of people, President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday.

The standard of living of people in Bulgaria working in the IT industry is four times higher than the average for the country. It is expected to overtake the standard in advanced countries like England, Germany and the United States. This is what Stеlyana Luizova commented on an Internet platform uniting the software specialists.

A map depicting average weekly work in Europe was created by linguist and mathematician Jakub Marian.

The data are the most recent from the OECD, which showed the total working hours per week in each country.

428,000 Europeans from 41 countries have prematurely died of diseases caused by fine particle in the air in 2014, the European Environment Agency said yesterday.

An American self-operating military drone has liquidated in Syria the British Sally Jones part of Islamic State known as the White Widow, along with her 12-year-old son.

The execution was carried out in the vicinity of the Kurdish militants surrounded by the city of Raqqa, the Times reported.

On Tuesday, the fractured Dutch government announced a coalition of several leading parties and put forward a roadmap for the Netherlands' future. Besides reaffirming the country's support of the EU and offering tax and immigration plans, the coalition said that it wanted all new cars to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2030.

The number of Romanians and Bulgarians living in the UK has increased by 76 percent over the past two years, the Yahoo News website reported, citing official data released on Wednesday.

A large spike in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians living in the UK since remaining restrictions on rights to work in the UK were lifted in 2014 is likely to further fuel debate in Britain on the vexed question of the free movement of labour.

The participants in the mountain biking race will enjoy eight days of mountain bike on the most beautiful paths of Pindos – The starting point will be in the picturesque Smixi of Grevena and through Metsovo, Pyli of Trikala, Neochori of Karditsa, Krikello of Evritania, Athanasios Diakos of Fokida, Ano Chora of Etoloakarnania, cyclists will reach at Nafpaktos.

The covered bond issue by the National Bank of Greece was completed on Tuesday, becoming the first Greek lender to tap the market since 2014 and securing the amount of 750 million euros at a rate of just 2.9 percent, far below the original estimate for 3.25 percent.