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Greek pensioners are reflected in a shop window mirror as they take part in an anti-austerity rally in central Athens, Tuesday. An estimated two thousand pensioners took part in a rally to oppose government cuts to their pensions. [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA] 

Members of Croatia's LGBTIQ community and their supporters gathered in front of the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on Saturday for the capital's 17th Pride March. This year's Pride March comes in the midst of a rise in hate speech and racist rhetoric in Croatia.

A general view of the Prinkipo (Buyukada) Greek Orthodox Orphanage in Istanbul, Thursday. The orphanage is the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the world. Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage organization, and the European Investment Bank Institute included the orphanage among 12 cultural heritage sites.

The "Walk for Life" is an event taking place this Saturday in three of Croatia's main cities, Zagreb, Split and Rijeka.
 
The organisers have said they want to stage a peaceful walk at which people can "give support to the protection of human life from conception to natural death".
 

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (r) welcomes his Estonian counterpart Kersti Kaljulaid (l) for talks within their meeting in Athens, Thursday. Kaljulaid is in Greece on a two-days official visit.  [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

Spanish fireman Manuel Blanco (l) greets supporters upon his arrival at San Justa station in Sevilla, southern Spain, after being found not guilty in a trial where he and two other colleagues were accused for helping refugees to enter illegally in Greece, while volunteering on a NGO on the coasts of Lesvos island.

Britain's Charles (c), the Prince of Wales is guided by British Royal Navy officers during his visit to the British Navy multi-role hydrographic survey ship HMS Echo at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Thursday. The British royals are on a three-day official visit to Greece.  [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

A seaman smokes a cigarette at the top of a ferry ramp in the port of Piraeus during a strike on Thursday. The seamen's PNO union extended its 24-hour action for another day, which means there will be no service between the Greek mainland and the islands until Friday.

Before the vote could take place, the session was interrupted four times as deputies from the opposition Self-Determination Movement threw tear gas, in an attempt to prevent it.

Seven members of the Assembly from this party have been arrested, while six have been removed from its further work.

   A man rides bicycle during a snowfall in Skopje, Macedonia on February 25. Media reports ostate that extreme cold weather is forecast to hit many parts of Europe with temperatures plummeting to a possible ten year low. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI