Christmas

The unusually warm weather in Bulgaria will last throughout Christmas and the temperatures will remain spring-like, reports the bTV national channel.

The weather in the ski resorts will also be abnormally warm.

On Thursday, however, a Mediterranean cyclone will bring first rain and then snow in the weekend. Temperatures over the weekend are expected to drop below zero.

Business leaders, the political class and average Germans are pushing back against a growing anti-immigrant movement, saying it threatens the values and image the country fought hard to establish since the war.

At counter-demonstrations and on social media, opponents have mobilised against the far-right group which claims Germany is being overrun by Islamic extremists.        

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extended his Christmas greetings to the Turkish citizens of the Christian faith through a written statement on Dec. 24, Christmas Eve.

“I would like to congratulate once again Christmas Day of all of the Christian world, and particularly our Christian citizens, and I wish them peace, happiness and welfare,” read Erdoğan’s statement.

Bosnia's three-man Presidency will be holding talks soon with the main parties to establish their written commitment to a package of reforms sought by European officials, the Chairman of the Presidency, Mladen Ivanic, said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, has been marked at Belgrade's Starina Novak primary school with an exhibition of children's drawings, titled A View into the World, and a symbolic ceremony at which an interactive board was presented to the school to help develop the friendship between Jewish and Serbian children.

Exhibition at Belgrade school marks Hanukkah

BELGRADE -- Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, has been marked at Belgrade's Starina Novak primary school with an exhibition of children's drawings.

Catholic archbishop of Belgrade sends Christmas message

BELGRADE -- Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar has wished all Christian believers a merry forthcoming Christmas.

In his message, he said that life is "sacred" and "no one and no national nor international institutions had the right to trade in it."

One and a half million Bulgarians will have less than BGN 9.2 per day to "celebrate" the Christmas and New Year holidays, reports the BTA wire service.

One million pensioners will have less than BGN 5 per day during the holidays.

The Greek bourse reacted calmly on Tuesday to the result of the presidential vote in Parliament, which while seeing a rise in support for the government’s candidate was still some way off the result required in next Monday’s third and final vote. The majority of stocks posted small losses on a day of poor turnover ahead of the Christmas recess.

BELGRADE - Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar Tuesday wished all Christian believers a merry forthcoming Christmas and said that life was sacred and no one and no national nor international institutions had the right to trade in it.