New Year's Day
Turkish Lira under dollar pressure
The year 2014 has been one in which the Turkish Lira plummeted under heavy pressure from the U.S. dollar. The lira last saw such pressure in 2009, the year when the global crisis took hold of Turkey. After overcoming that crisis, it again experienced the stress created by the climbing dollar in 2014. The lira is entering the new year with a lot of accumulated stress.
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Cold snap set to bring storms and snowfall
A cold snap that took hold over the weekend is to continue this week with storms expected in many parts and snowfall in the north and mountainous parts of the mainland.
Following several months of relatively mild weather, snow and sub-zero temperatures appeared across much of the north over the weekend, starting in Thessaloniki and spreading to central and western Macedonia.
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Mirkovic: Media content co-financing bids to be called soon
BELGRADE - Serbia's Ministry of Culture and Information should issue invitations to tender for co-financing media projects after the New Year and Christmas holidays, Sasa Mirkovic, state secretary in the ministry, has said, stressing that the government has the political will to give up ownership in the media.
St. George Strings to put on New Year’s concert
BELGRADE - The St. George Strings orchestra will perform a traditional New Year's concert at the Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade on Monday, December 29.
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Coffee Festival, a new ritual in Istanbul
The first of the new ritual in Istanbul, the Istanbul Coffee Festival, will bring the gusto of the third wave of coffee trends in Galata Greek Primary School, an important center for many cultural events, starting Dec. 25 until Dec. 28 for every level of coffee enthusiast.
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1.5 Million Bulgarians To Spend Holidays on Less than BGN 10 Per Day
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.
City of Athens announces New Year's Eve events
The City of Athens on Tuesday announced its plans for the New Year celebrations.
As was the case last year, a concert will be held in Thiseio, central Athens.
A stage will be erected where Apostolou Pavlou and Irakleidon streets meet, near the Thiseio electric railway station.
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DefMin congratulates all troops in theatres of operations, in a videoconference
Minister of National Defence, Mircea Dusa, on Tuesday congratulated all the Romanian troops in the theatres of operations, on the occasion of the Christmas and year-end celebrations, in a videoconference he held at the headquarters of the Ministry.
Russian Humanitarian Aid Convoy Enters Ukraine's Donbass
As many as 90 Russian trucks have delivered loads of humanitarian aid to the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine.
The convoy has transported there medicaments, construction and New Year presents.
Deliveries have a total weight of 1.4 tons. Some reports say the amount is higher and even put the number of trucks at up to 170.
Mogherini: Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to resume in January
BRUSSELS - The high-level political dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will resume as soon as the New Year and Christmas holiday season ends, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said in Brussels on Monday.