United Kingdom

Dear Sir,

I am writing to compliment and express my sincere thanks to the Greek public health service on the excellent treatment I received recently as a visitor and tourist from England. We have heard a lot in the press about the crisis in Greece and how it is affecting public services.

The rules of the new Electoral Code do not work, they set traps and put in doubt the holding of the elections, warn Bulgarians abroad united in the civil initiative "I Want To Vote".

The British government has decided not to stop cheap student loans to youths from the EU.

Luxembourg's PM Xavier Bettel has called on all member-states of the EU to close their borders for 24 hours. This will give skeptical Europeans a shocking lesson on how valuable free movement of people in the EU is.

Novinite publishes profiles of presidential candidates running in the forthcoming elections on November 06.

We continue with Ivaylo Kalfin, a former Foreign Minister and MEP running on the ticket of President (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov's party.

According to Eurostat data, “Elefterios Venizelos” International Airport in Athens has recorded the highest passenger transit increase in Europe for 2015. The figures show that 19.1% more travellers passed through “Eleftherios Venizelos” last year, compared to 2014, with Luton and Dublin terminals coming in second and third with a +17% and +14.1% rise, respectively.

The Croatian President is visiting Britain - but while her meeting with Queen Elizabeth will be full of ceremony, there is little she can do to boost a weak relationship, an analyst told BIRN.

It is to everyone's benefit that rumors that have not been filtered through the intellect are open to scrutiny by "intellect and knowledge." 

The vast vineyards of businessman Lucien Arkas are located close to the antique city of Metropolis near İzmir in western Turkey. During a recent business trip to İzmir, at a lunch in Arkas' vineyards, I thought once again about how valuable the grape is for these lands, where grapes and mythology coexist. 

Ongoing instability in Iraq and Syria has affected Turkey more than any other country, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Oct. 10. 
"The situation to our south in Iraq and Syria affects our country, Turkey, the most," said Yıldırım on Oct. 10 during his speech at the opening ceremony of the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul.