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“The participation of the IMF in the Greek aid program is established in the relevant legal documents” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said responding to a question about whether Berlin believes IMF’s involvement in the third Greek program absolutely necessary.

Europe was wrong to ignore Turkey's refugee crisis situation for so long, the European Parliament's Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri has told Anadolu Agency.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday signed the “Declaration of Athens” which seals the cooperation of the three countries within the framework of the third tripartite meeting.

A total of 68 suspects, whose defense statements were not taken in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trials between 2010 and 2013 as they were speaking Kurdish, will have another opportunity after a new law which allows Kurdish to be spoken before the court in Turkey.

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the removal of content from websites is a violation of freedom of expression.

In its decision released late on Dec. 8, the Constitutional Court addressed an individual appeal from the owner of an online news portal, made after content was removed from the website through a local court order. 

Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 "Person of the Year" on Dec. 9, noting her resilience and leadership when faced with the Syrian refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union over its currency this year.

The opening of the first chapters in the EU accession talks will be a deserved moment for celebration for Serbia, says Johannes Hahn.

This is true "with economic recovery and rule of law as the focus in the future," EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said ahead of his visit to Belgrade on Thursday.

Bulgaria's trade with the EU in the first nine months of 2015 recorded a growth, as there was an increase both in the number of imports and exports between the country and the Union.

This is visible from the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic spoke with EU member-states' ambassadors and EU Delegation to Serbia head Michael Davenport, it has been announced.

They discussed Serbia's European path and the intergovernmental conference that will mark the opening of the first negotiating chapter in Brussels on December 14, the government said on its website.

Germany's exports declined in October as demand for goods and services from Europe's biggest economy outside slowed outside the region, official data showed on Dec. 9.

German exports fell by a seasonally adjusted 1.2 percent to 99 billion euros ($108 billion) in October, the federal statistics office calculated.